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Hi,

The Maille Breze has gone on to the back burner for a wee while and I am busy working away at HMS Gloxinia, a Flower class corvette, and the model will be radio controlled.

I started off with a Fleetscale HMS Bryony which is, bizarrely, a very long forecastle moulding but I cut it back to a short forecastle hull.



Gloxinia was one of four Flower class corvettes sent out to the Mediterranean very early in the war and was used, as were the other three, mostly for magnetic minesweeping. I am working from the one quite well known photo of Gloxinia from early 1943.



Progress so far:-







All the best
Sandy

hi
nice
lets have a look inside
gary r

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Hi,

Not a huge ammount to see as yet as brushless motor isn't installed or electrics set in place.

Fibreglass hull, wood battens and deck edge, plywood deck, styrene most everything else.

Here's a photo showing a bit of the build:-



but I didn't take many photos early on.

All the best
Sandy

looking good Sandy

Looking very good. I like it

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Hi Sandy another superb model in the making
Dave Wooley

E. L. James was right, there are fifty shades of grey.

Not happy with the first one I have tried another, going back to the good old PlastiKote grey primer.





All te best
Sandy

beautyful

Some more deck painting:-

Hi Sandy very good work i can see.
do you pretend add rusting?

I am not sure. I have never done any weathering before but I may try some bits and pieces.

All the best
Sandy

From what I've seen, Flower-class corvettes saw quite a lot of action, in seas they really weren't adequately designed to weather. This would seem to be one of those ship types which would have at least moderate weathering as a matter of course; the only "clean" ones you'd likely see would be museum boats. But don't take my word for it.

Try out some basic weathering techniques on a small-scale ship first to see what works for you, then decide if it's to your taste. That way you get some practice in without risking that nice hull paint job, and maybe you'll also come up with some character-building ideas.

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1/350 Trumpeter USS Yorktown CV-10

Not much progress made, but some:-

hello sandy,wow nice looking build.were the flower class bigger or smaller than the castle class corvettes.

sorry the reason I ask is in the later years union steamships converted three castle class corvettes to passenger ,freight boats

The Castle class were slightly bigger. There is a 48th scale castle class hull available here in the UK.

As is the way, not a huge amount of progress (now that I see the last posted photos) but some.











All the best
Sandy

a very nice crisp build sandy ,looks very nice

Sandy

This model is coming along very nicely. Can you post some close up pictures of the deck detail. I would love to see how you approach this element of the model.
Keep up the progress.
Catch up with you pond side, maybe at the open season sail.

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Hi Steve,

Close ups?? I thought they wee close ups?

The two four inchers and the 20mm are bought. The dinghys, vents and depth charges are bought - resin.

Everything else is styrene.

All the best
Sandy