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All those fiddley bits... I'd go mad. Great stuff. Any ideas for Captain Brown's personal cabin?

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Poland

I'm amazed by your effort and attencion to details you put in this project
   
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Surrey, BC - Canada

Flapjack wrote:All those fiddley bits... I'd go mad. Great stuff. Any ideas for Captain Brown's personal cabin?


Frodeck wrote:I'm amazed by your effort and attencion to details you put in this project


Thank you Flapjack and Frodeck.

For a base I pulled out the two bases for the Oerlikons (which RCN Corvettes did not get until later in the war), I added some thicker styrene rod from the mixed bag and cut out discs of smaller tubes to fill the top. Then I drilled two holes, one on each side for the turning hand cranks.



The arms of the davits I built from 0.020 thickness styrene cut from the plans in John McKay & John Harland's Anatomy of the Ship - The Flower Class Corvette AGASSIZ, the davits are basically two identical halves (arms) surrounding the blocks. I purchased a mixed bag of round styrene tubes from Evergreen and it has been extremely useful and I cut out discs to represent the wheels for the davits (large ones for the end and smaller ones down the middle. Then a bit of plastic rod at the bottom to allow the davits to swing freely until I decide on which angle to glue them.

The eye bolts at the ends of the arms were made from small discs cut from the styrene rod and cut in half to create the ring.

Then I built the winching gear box out of two small squares of sprue, first was the smaller angled piece, since the sprue parts are usually angled to a narrow side I just matched a segment to my paired arms. I then made a diagonal cut to match the angle of the arms. Then I cut a small cube of larger sprue and squared the edges and drilled a small hole all the way through (this was for the hand cranks), before attaching to my angled piece.

Hand cranks are made from piano wire.

On the minesweeping gear front: Well I went to a bead store and purchased several small metal rings. Then I cut some styrene piping (smallest diameter I could find in a mixed assortment from Evergreen) to fit inside the ring and filed a notch in the middle. Then I repeated the process and glued the notched sides together making a cross. Then some 5-minute epoxy to get the plastic to adhere to the metal.

Then I built my breaks for the minesweeping winch. 0.015 by 0.060 styrene stripes were cut and then glued together at an angle, these were married together with some of the brown plastic piping provided in the kit for railings.



What is not in that picture are the small discs cut from the brown piping to fit at the bend in the break support and one at the short end (the break pipe attaches at the top of the long arm and connects to the pressure bands on the drum). I may add a pair to the bottom of the break support to the bottom of the drum…but we will have to see if I have room when the thread is added.

Meanwhile I built three styrene staffs, with another little pit of brown piping to serve as the pivot upon with the break support sits. In this photo you can also see the steam motor which ran the gears to provide power to the engaged drums (I made it from some tank treads cut down, brown piping, two kit stanchions, some round sprue from the kit and lots of left over styrene – failed parts/shavings).



Next stage with breaks added, the turning handles, etc.



More to follow as next I have to tackle that worry of mine, the minesweeping floats…

The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

   
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Boston-area [Watertown] Massachusetts

I sincerely hope you enter this into a local model show when you're finished!


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Surrey, BC - Canada

Thank you Briancj, youwashock and Meer_Cat,

Little bit of work on the 4-Inch, mainly the elevation wheel and some more detail on the base.



Mock-up of the progress:



Now that the winch is nearing completion I tackled the item that has had been worrying me from the start and that is the minesweeping floats (dolphins). In the end I decided to make them from scratch as buying an aircraft kit to cut off some tanks was not in the cards and my searches for spare fuel tanks also came up empty.

I purchased a bag of wooden furniture plugs (each plug is about two inches long) of the right diameter for the widest portion of the dolphin. An old Ikea plug cut in half would provide the tail. I drilled a hole in each for some piano wire to give the join strength and then secured them together with some 5 minute epoxy.



Next came the Mini-Dremel and I sanded down the wooden plugs to a general dolphin shape.



Then some two part epoxy putty to fill in the gaps (thread marks in the plugs).



I sprayed them with some grey automotive primer, and while I was letting that dry I started some work on the racks they would sit on.

First I built a simple frame out of angle bracket styrene and then some 0.015 by 0.125 styrene for the ends:




Then I sanded the now dry floats one more time to smooth out the raised areas left by epoxy putty. I followed this with some 0.020 styrene to make the tail and stabilizers (securing them with superglue - a little 0.020 by 0.020 stripes added some strength to the vertical fin glued to the end of the float), and then some 0.010 by 0.060 stripes to build the brackets. A quick trim of the flat styrene at each end and I have two minesweeping floats.



The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

   
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Boston-area [Watertown] Massachusetts

Yeah, I can think of a bunch of fuel tank/bomb/whatever kits for 1:35, 1:48 and 1:72 scale aircraft models, but no guarantees they'd be the right size/length/etc without actually buying them. So, I think the scratch-build here was the best choice.

Bravo!

--Brian


Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
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Love seeing all the details - I've always found minesweeping interesting. In ocean or space.
   
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Surrey, BC - Canada

Briancj wrote:Yeah, I can think of a bunch of fuel tank/bomb/whatever kits for 1:35, 1:48 and 1:72 scale aircraft models, but no guarantees they'd be the right size/length/etc without actually buying them. So, I think the scratch-build here was the best choice.

Bravo!

--Brian


Thank you Briancj.

kestral wrote:Love seeing all the details - I've always found minesweeping interesting. In ocean or space.


Cute reference kestrel.

Next part of the stern fittings was the depth charge rails. Now my original plan was to just scratch-build my own, but after taking a closer look at the drawings from John McKay & John Harland's Anatomy of the Ship - The Flower Class Corvette AGASSIZ, I have decided to just use the kit parts with some adjustments. First thing was to cut off the last segment of each set of rails and from the removed segment I cut off the curved loading rail. Now one set of rails would have been for regular depth charges and one set would have been for ‘heavy’ charges which carried an extra weight and would sink faster to make the net of depth charges around the submarine. Of course pretty well no drop was a perfect bracket over the submarines as they would maneuver to avoid the charges because they were well aware that the corvette lost 'sight' as soon as they came close [downward looking sonar was developed much later in the war].

On the depth charges themselves I think that I will be cutting off the extra extensions on each depth charge in the kit (they are too wide when the scale is checked), leaving one side on to represent the ‘heavy’ charges.



So I may still have to narrow my rails by cutting out some of the cross braces. I have already started to sand down the parts to make them narrower and more to scale.

Here is the sweep gear as it stands right now (minus the winch as there was not room in the photo…gives you an idea of how crowded it is going to be back there).



I am intending on mounting it on some lamp finials.
Here is what they look like:


Here is what they look like when the ship is mounted on them.


The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

   
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Boston-area [Watertown] Massachusetts

Great choice on the brass finials!

Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
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That's a fantastic mount, it'll look amazing once the ship is all painted up.

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Captain Brown wrote:

I am intending on mounting it on some lamp finials.
Here is what they look like:


Here is what they look like when the ship is mounted on them.


The long painting and converting war continues...

CB


It looks low by the bow like that. Can you adjust the front support up a millimeter or two?

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Surrey, BC - Canada

Briancj wrote:Great choice on the brass finials!

Thanks Briancj

Thank you for the comments Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll

Vulcan wrote:
Spoiler:
Captain Brown wrote:

I am intending on mounting it on some lamp finials.
Here is what they look like:


Here is what they look like when the ship is mounted on them.


The long painting and converting war continues...

CB


It looks low by the bow like that. Can you adjust the front support up a millimeter or two?

Actually Vulcan it is not. Because these escorts were based on a civilian whaling ship design they had the "duck tail" stern (which was raised) and allowed the smaller hull length to handle the North Atlantic swells (or originally the North Sea). Now the raised stern also meant that any water that was shipped would eventually make it's way midships to the scuppers and was not appreciated by the crew trying to traverse the steel decks. The ducktail stern was so successful that no Corvette was lost due to storms/weather during the war, storms that sank or crippled many Destroyers (built to military standards) escorting the same convoys.


So next up is the bridge (you could see a little of this work in the last photo of the previous post), while I seem to be jumping from section to section…the truth is I am. I want to make sure I don’t get too bogged down in a particular area. Also helps when I start to get frustrated with a particular part.

Bridge for CHILLIWACK in her 1942 configuration was the original mercantile bridge that had been modified with extensions on the wings and an armoured shield covered by splinter mats. So I adjusted the bridge from the drawings provided by Bob Pearson as his were for a British owned RCN Corvette (like ARROWHEAD, TRILLIUM, etc). Next I added a 17 mm high shield made from 0.040 styrene around the front and extended sides (the aft portions just had canvas dodgers over railings). The shield then had it’s wind shield made from very, very small triangles of styrene glued at regular intervals along the top and a 0.010 by 0.080 strip to make the actual wind deflector…making sure to leave a very tiny empty strip below to allow water to drain. The purpose of this wind deflector two twofold, to help break up any sea that reached that far as well as push the wind away or more accurately deflect it…any one who has stood on an open bridge in a storm knows how strong the wind is once it reaches the bridge.





So I was feeling very proud of myself when I looked at the pictures a little more closely…specifically how high the pilot house sits in relation to the shield.



Therefore I needed to raise the shield to make it look more accurate…several paired strips of 0.020 by 0.020 styrene were needed to do this and I ended up with this:


Just ignore the chips and nicks on the front shield, I had a little trouble with my first attempt at adding splinter mats. I made some from modelling clay and some from epoxy putty and was happy with neither, the kit mats are really, really too plain and uniform.


In this picture you can even see some of the bridge sagging which was a major problem for RCN Corvettes. They do add supports, but never enough as more equipment and heavier weapons were added to the bridge.

The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

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The Brass mounting is really elegant. Interesting bit about the Duck Tail - that is the kind of detail my father loved about ships (and understood far better than I). You know, this blog is inspiring me to rebuild the scratch built Glouster fishing schooner model my late father built when I was young. My son and I were thinking about it doing it together. The rigging is trashed after poor storage and some other parts are broken or missing. Since it was built to actually sail in model races there are some compromises with accuracy, but seeing your scratch building makes me think maybe I could do it.
   
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Affton, MO. USA

Great progress, I applaud your work towards accuracy.

The finials are great, as others have mentioned.

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Surrey, BC - Canada

Thank you kestral and Theophony,


Now that I have been working on the model for a while I decided to review my original plan and see what I have accomplished and what is still to be completed and what is to be modified…

Hull
Complete - Removal of a portion of the upper deck to forward of the bridge
Complete - Extra-large keel ground off
Complete - Stem needs to be removed and rebuilt
Complete - Bilge rails are way too large and thick, replacing with plasticard
Complete - Extra Portholes Covered
Complete – Extra Scuppers Covered
Dropped (Since the West Coast Corvettes seemed to have the eyebrows I will leave them on) Port Hole Eyebrows…torn as the West Coast ships seemed to have these
Complete - Stern needs to be flattened out and pulled to make sure there is room for Minesweeping gear and the Canadian stern
Additional Work - Also had to cut out new scuppers.

Deck and Fittings
Complete - All decks needs to have the fake reversed wood paneling taken off
Complete - Well deck needs to be scratch-built
Complete - Some water tight doors and other materials for the foc'sle
Additional decking added at the stern of the engine casing
Windlass, this is going to have to be built from scratch or a substitute found
Anchors need work and the hawse pipe is a joke
Complete - Hull Splinter Shields; on the forward ones I think I will have to move the placement as some of the West Coast Corvettes had them added slightly inboard
Lockers all need hinges and detailing
Wooden decks added forward and aft and in the well deck area
Mast…kit version is too short for short foc'sle and the SW1C/SW2C is missing
Life Boat Davits need lots of work
Boat Deck needs to be scratch-built and wood planking added, it will need lots of work as the kit is dearth in details here
Oval Life Rafts, need some work, not that bad
Partially Complete - Life Boats, fortunately 1942 the smaller square stern life boats were in use and not the Whaler…lucky me
Hatches need detailing
Dropping (going to use the kit ones) - Rectangle Life Rafts
Rope & Cable Reels need detailing or replacement
Complete - Small Ventilators need detailing
Need to scratch-build blake and bottle screw slip

Bridge
Complete - A new bridge will need to be built for the Short Focsle version
Search Lights need some pretty major work
Bridge Deck needs wood planking
Bridge Ladder Moved
Radar Lantern House…depending on early or late 1942 will determine if I need this, it needs a door, holes in the grate, etc.
Bridge Supports, again a pre or post 271 Radar set addition (CHILLIWACK had parts of the set added on repeated visits to Londonderry with the set being completed in December 1942)
Windshield…I will think of something
Complete - Bridge Splinter Shields/Splinter Mats…kit ones are a little sparse and the whole Bridge needs to be rebuilt for a type B design
Pipe Rails added instead of the fake flat plastic in the kit which look fragile and not really accurate
Rail Dodgers see above, going to built the pipe rails and then add some tissue paper
Complete - Wind dodger needs to be scratch built
Flag Box needs a complete replacement
Assorted Lockers need hinges and butterfly clips
Signal Light Platforms replacement or major conversion work
Complete - Deck House Ladders need replacement
D/F Coil, replacement with a round version
Bridge Voice Pipes need some detailing

Engine Room Casing
Complete - Needs to be shortened and corrected for Canadian version with overhang and struts
Complete - Move the 2 Pdr Bandstand aft
Complete - Engine Room Skylight…needs to be completely rebuilt as the kit version is wrong on so many levels.
Complete - Watertight Doors…the kit versions are really poor
Complete - Galley to be removed and moved aft of bridge
Complete - Funnel has had a styrene shell built with rivet detail
Dropped (Going to use the kit part) - Funnel Ladder, kit version is pretty simple
Steam Pipes on Funnel
Complete - Large ventilators really need some work as the kit versions are simple and too thick
Placement of gear and other changes are necessary

Weapons
4-inch Main Gun & Shield replacement or a complete scratch-build
Complete - Bandstand for the above will need treads and a replacement for the ammunition holders as well as some mesh and other detailing
2 Pdr (working on deciding if I am going to do early 1942 or late 1942…as early actually seemed to have a 20 mm Oerlikon in the rear bandstand while late had the 2 Pdr - if someone knows when I would love to know). Either way a replacement of complete scratch-build looks necessary
Complete - The 2 Pdr Bandstand tub needs to be replaced and a tread added
Bridge Weapons - either 303 Lewis Guns or 50 Cal twined Machine Guns look like the fittings for 1942. As per the 2 Pdr a completely new build will be necessary as the kit parts are really quite poor (again, no confirmation seems available)
Complete - Depth Charge Throwers…these are not bad…OK they are bad, about the level of the other weapons, I think some framing for the base and a little detail work will make them acceptable. Depth Charges are a little weak, but with some cutting off of extra parts and some paint detail they can work. The stalks are really too small and will have to be replaced, as well as stalk carrier detail.
Dropped (Going to use the kit parts with a lot of sanding) - Depth Charge Racks, too thick and too large, so some platicard replacements look necessary
Smoke Candle Racks…I think there is some sort of thick box that the kit provides
Floater Nets & Racks
Smoke Candles need some holes drilled

Minesweeping Gear
As this was not removed until the foc'sle extension I need to scratch-build the lot
Complete - Winch
Complete - Davits (x2)
Complete - Large Minesweeping Floats (x2) [/COLOR]Otter/Kite Floats (x4)
Gallows (x2)
Dan Buoys and racks

So the build is progressing.

Here is the bridge with splinter matts added. (I tried making some with clay, some with epoxy putty and finally just used the kit ones with a lot of filing)



Started working on the Boat Deck (or Funnel Deck depending on who you ask); adding ladders and some railings, (looks like I am going to have to make some stair railings out of piano wire) also added the small platform to access the two galley doors.


The mast was going to be tricky, not only was I moving the mast forward on the model, but I was also lowering it a deck...actually two decks with the moving forward of the focsle. (RCN Corvettes built for British accounts had the mast on top of a raised galley amidships…which is what is supplied with the kit and thus too short…really too short) So now the mast sat at the front of the well deck, with a clamp at the focsle deck level.

I started by removing the plastic angled pin at the base and measuring how much additional mast I needed. Then I selected the styrene tubing that was a close to the diameter of the base of the mast as possible. The one I selected was hollow and needed another tube inserted to make a solid cylinder. I did leave a little extra of the filling styrene tube and this will act as a guide to help seat the mast properly later on.

Then I drilled a 2 cm deep hole down the center. A similar 2 cm deep hole was drilled into the base of the existing mast and a 4 cm piece of piano wire was inserted to make the join strong (this took a very long time as drilling a 2 cm hole is not easy with a pin-vice).

When the two parts were joined I used plastic glue rather than epoxy, banking on the grip of the melted plastic to hold in the wire.

Then I took a piece of the next largest styrene tubing and cut a piece larger than my addition and started sanding down the end. I also sanded some of the original mast where the join was to narrow it to the same diameter. Then I applied the larger tube like a sleeve to create the continuous and gradual increase in mast diameter.

Here you can see the join as well as the mast bracket made from the next size up of styrene tubing and some 0.2 thickness styrene…you can also see roughly how it will sit on the deck.

So with the mast and the additions to the Boat Deck I have this for a mock-up:

What this has highlighted is that my angling of the bridge to adjust for the rise in the deck is a little too great…my bridge is sagging forward. :( So I will have to do some repair work before I secure it to the deck. Mast also has not bee glued in so that is why it is raked so far back.

And a view looking down, sorry no tripod to hold the camera steady:

You can see how crowded the Sweep Deck is going to be:


Next up is the expanding foam to fill the hull and then I will glue the deck down and some quick fittings for the bulwarks and I will start to paint it.

The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

   
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Why are you filling the hull?


Falling down is the same as being hit by a planet — "I paint to the 20 foot rule, it saves a lot of time." -- Me
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Love that airborn shot of the stern.

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Your dedication to detail is astounding. The effort going into this... Feels like more effort than I have in all my painted minis so far lol.

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Surrey, BC - Canada

Briancj wrote:Why are you filling the hull?

Because the model is so light and the superstructure is getting heavier as more fittings are added. I did not want her toppling over as I do work.

Thank you kestrel and SickSix.

While doing this build I did have a fascinating discussion with a veteran who served two years in HMCS SHEDIAC, he provided me with some corrections on the build. Since in 1941 and 1942 he was an acting PO and was a Leading Torpedo-man he pointed out the depth charge racks on the early RCN corvettes were straight (just angled against the slope of the deck) unlike the kit versions which have a dip near the end, so some more work will be needed on those.

Here are some progress photos, work that was carried out in spare moments.

First I filled the hull with expanding foam "Great Stuff" brand filler...use carefully as it really expands. The large Popsicle sticks were used to create the tumble home of the deck as the foam filled underneath. The foam provides strength to the model and makes is a little more substantial.



Here is the mock-up of the stern at the sweep deck (I did this so the veteran could point out what he remembered and the depth charge racks need to be straightened). The green is paint covering up my epoxy putty which filled in where I had pushed out the bulwarks and stern hull to make the square RCN corvette end vice the round cruiser version of the RN.


The vet also pointed out there was room to walk between the closing ends of the depth charge racks as his position was to pull the pins at the stern to roll the charges off. He also said that he did not remember ever using 'heavy' charges. Based on his memory I will be placing two .50 Cal machine guns on each bridge wings.

Next part of the kit that needed work was the bases for the davits, the kit just makes plastic pyramids, when the real ones had sections cut out to save on weight, steel and allow drainage.



With holes drilled and a primer coat of paint.



Some more work, started the wooden planking for the boat decks, bridge and pilot house roof.




I ended up using scored styrene due to my Popsicle stick method being to time consuming. So besides cutting the planks at the joins I am also scoring them with course grit sandpaper to simulate the grain.

I also need to add planking to the focsle and near the sweepdeck. RCN corvettes had these added after the initial construction and initially went to sea with no deck planking, just painted steel...which was really, really slippery. Based on what I found out speaking with veterans is that most ships had the planking added around the time the main mast was removed.

Here are four photographs from two Battle of Atlantic veterans who graciously let me scan them to post.

First from Bruce Menzies who was a sonar rating in HMCS WASKESIU, he answered my questions on the colour of the bottom of the hulls. RCN hulls were Black vice the Admiralty Anti-Fouling Red. Bruce sent these pictures taken in London in October 1944 of WASKESIU having her hull painted. He described the paint as almost a black tar.


You can see Bruce here, and he was recently featured in the History Channel's presentation of Convoy (Episode 4).

The second pair are from Ted Paxton, who prior to his commissioning and service in the Pacific was an Acting Petty Officer in HMCS SHEDIAC 1941-42.

You can actually see sailors taking a dip off the stern, one man is about to jump from the forward Carley Floats. One of the few pictures I have ever seen with the bridge wing .50 Cals visible.

The famous SHEDIAC Cat reaching into the bowl to grab a German U-Boat "Fish".

The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

   
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Wow, excellent work on tracking down veterans and getting their input!

Those pictures also must really help get a clearer view of things.

Magnificent work!

--Brian


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Amazing progress, every time it's more clear how much care you are putting into this project

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Houston, TX

Excellent progress on this crazy, ambitious project. The effort to get photos and input from the vets is really impressive to me and really shows your dedication to historical accuracy. And really good plasticard work. It looks like you are building over half the boat from scratch. Amazing.

-Rids

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Surrey, BC - Canada

Briancj wrote:Wow, excellent work on tracking down veterans and getting their input!

Those pictures also must really help get a clearer view of things.

Magnificent work!

--Brian


Thank you Brian.
amazingturtles wrote:Amazing progress, every time it's more clear how much care you are putting into this project

Thanks amazingturtles
The Riddle of Steel wrote:Excellent progress on this crazy, ambitious project. The effort to get photos and input from the vets is really impressive to me and really shows your dedication to historical accuracy. And really good plasticard work. It looks like you are building over half the boat from scratch. Amazing.
-Rids

Thank you The Riddle of Steel,
I figure when I finish there will be about 90% of the kit will have been modified or scratch built.

More progress.

Here is CHILLIWACK as she stands at this point.


I started to shrink the depth charge racks on the stern. I did this by cutting through the cross pieces and then after sanding them down glued the two halves back together. Here they are without any post join work after the cut. (Reason for the reduction in width is both due to space of the sweep deck and the fact the depth charges that come with the kit are too long, so after cutting off the ends they tend to drop out of the depth charge rails)

Next step is to get them to fit and angle inwards while still leaving room to get between them for pulling the release pins at the end. After doing some more research on CHILLIWACK, based on the drawings from Burrard Dry Dock the rails aft did have a downward angle at the end. Many RCN corvettes built back east were straight as described by Ted, but the West Coast ones had an angle, so I won't need to redo them completely.

Started adding the deck fittings, such as the wooden planking on the focsle and on the sweep deck. Here is the sweep deck, you can also see a depth charge stand against the engine room casing as well as the tops of two vents just above the edge of the lower bulwark.


Then as a break I went back to the 4-Inch and added elevation and training wheels as well as sights.





More to follow, since I really need to get on the forward bandstand and the shells stored there for ready use.

The long painting and converting war continues...

CB

   
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Walking Dead Wraithlord






Continually impressive.
   
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Storm Trooper with Maglight





Back in the UK and hating it

Absolutely amazing work! I remember a childhood friend having the old Matchbox kit on his windowsill...but this is above and beyond.

   
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Druid Warder





The joys of larger scale ship modelling! The project is coming together nicely, and with Your attention to details it will be amazing, I'm sure.

Painting progress tracker:
2017: 50 of 50 planned; 2018: 80 of 60 planned; 2019: 75 of 75 planned

Pledge 2020:
6 to sculpt, 75 to paint (2/57 done) 
   
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Lincoln, UK

Just re-read The Cruel Sea for the zillionth time, and came across this thread. What an amazing build - thank you for sharing it with us!
   
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The Marine Standing Behind Marneus Calgar





Upstate, New York

Your attention to detail, and the ability to actually execute it, remains an amazing feat.

   
 
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