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Revell/Matchbox 1/72 Flower Class Corvette with Great Little Ships Upgrade

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For the decals, Above and Below Graphics in Canada do really nice Flower Class sheets, tailored to the ship you are building. Far better than the kit decals.
 
Yep, I just saw that. Remember this is a side gig, his day job comes first. Super nice guy to deal with though, and first class products. I have his Snowberry sheet and it even includes the stencils for the hedgehog bombs.
A friend has a bunch of his RCAF aicraft decals, same first class product and service.
 
Also look at MicroMaster of New Zealand. They make some very nice sets for the 1/72 ( as well as all the other popular scales) Flower Class.
Gaspatch models in Greece do exquisit Lewis machine guns that can be used.
 
Iain C said:
I'm working my way round the ship tackling different components in order to practice my soldering skills.
I've moved on to the main gun platform and assembly starts with folding up four flaps and rolling a flat piece of brass into a cylinder which connect to form the plinth...

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The upper face is a very thin separate piece which curls as soon as it is cut from the fret...this has to carefully lined up with the lower disc and stuck down with CA glue...

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The completed disc has to now be edged with a long strip which was soldered in place....

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Next is to assemble 36 microscopic cradles for the shells that are spaced around the edge of the gun deck. The parts as supplied by Revell look like this...

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The brass replacements look like this...

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This is the first stage I've come to where I think the etched parts could have been better designed. It's virtually impossible to assemble the parts as supplied. As a compromise, I dug out some Evergreen strip that is the same width as the brass pieces and cut 36 pieces in 5mm lengths...


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The main brass elements were modified slightly and glued to the styrene strip...Once all of them are together I'll add some struts from thin wire....

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I've also added two more videos, one for this section and also a soldering demo....

Gun Deck

Soldering Demo
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This is where 3D printing comes in handy.
 
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