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K63 HMS Picotee 1941 1/48 scale early short forecastle Flower Class Corvette

Jack Jäger said:
To balance things up I have added the port side boat, so now it is on to the forecastle where I have started by making a balls up of the four inch gun's platform and have decided to remake it before I go on. Well that is the weekend sorted.

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By every adding she is becoming more and more impressive, Jack.
Regards, Peter
 
Morning folks.
I have remade the four inch gun's platform and added the ready use containers for the cordite charges along with the shells sitting in their holders. A big thank you to Marco for producing the both beautiful and functional shell holders; very pleasing to the eye.

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Cheers JJ..​
 
Jack Jäger said:
Morning folks.
I have remade the four inch gun's platform and added the ready use containers for the cordite charges along with the shells sitting in their holders. A big thank you to Marco for producing the both beautiful and functional shell holders; very pleasing to the eye.

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That looks nice, Jack. For sure you are now listening to:
Could also “That’s where friend are for!”, but I prefer Joe ……
Regards, Peter
 
Jack Jäger said:
A quick update, the last couple of days has been spent slowly adding bits to the forecastle whilst trying to foresee any unforeseen consequences they might present. I will have some pics. tomorrow. However I thought this photograph was worth posting...


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Cheers JJ..​
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If you scrunch up your eyes and squint a bit you could almost believe it is the same ship; not!

JJ..​
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Great view on Great pictures of a Great model, Jack.
Regards, Peter
 
Forecastle fittings
(Back on the rails!)​

Hi folks I have added some more of the fittings to the forecastle including the permanent rails, the ones further forward are 'wire' and intendant to be removed when docking. They will be fitted after the anchor stoppers. Apart for the steam winch, anchor cable etc. all that you see in the pics has now been permanently attached. I am now working on the stoppers (Blake screw stopper), for the anchor cables. I recon when finished mine will be around 50 mm which is probably a few millimetres too long, but it is hard to tell until I fit them. Making the bottle screws is a bit fiddly and I would be pushed to make them shorter and still keep the correct proportions, so it is a bit of trial and error for now.

Some pics..


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Cheers JJ..​

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Now that I have most bits put together I am struck by how old fashioned Picotee looked even for 1940, her wooden bridge and wheelhouse have the look of a tramp steamer from between the wars and her armament certainly would not have looked out of place in WW1. The four inch gun on the forecastle is impressive and doubtless well able to sink a surfaced U Boat, but it sits on such a low platform that if the U Boat surfaced close in the gun could not depress enough to hit it. As in a scene from the movie Greyhound, were the fictitious corvette 'Dickie' fires over a surfaced sub. These early 'flowers' didn't have a gyro compass, hence the need for a wooden hut above the wheelhouse to hold the magnetic compass. It is little wonder that they where modified so quickly, some even before launching.
HMS Picotee was launched eighty five years ago on the nineteenth of July 1940 not ten miles from where I am writing, I hope to have my model completed by the 19th. It took Harland and Wolff just under four months to build her, where as by the 19th it will have taken me exactly one year. But then again there was a war on then.

Thanks for all your kind remarks JJ..
 
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