Hello to all,
This year, I decided to build a well known ship of the British modelers because it is a corvette Flower Class.
I like very much this kind of ship who worked in a relative shade during the WW 2.

The first work was to find a plan .I was able to buy on EBay a plan in 1/96, after x2 of mains parts, me from the been able to to begin the skeleton of the hull in 1/48 what was the scale looked for for a comfortable navigation.
The hull is made from birch plywood for the frame, and balsa for the side of the hull. After a coat of fiber glass inside and outside to reinforce the hull.

Continuation of the construction of the hull). Numerous difficulties appeared because of the shape of the stern of these corvette. The lined is stopped in the last couple and the dense foam realized extreme part.

Today the hull is sanded an coated witch epox and glass fiber.
In the same time I began the building of the superstructures and the fitting
- First pic the bow (?)
- second pic radar tower on upper deck
- third pic the side of the upper deck
- fourth pic the funel ended

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The hull of the Flower Class presents the peculiarity of very visible joints of sheet steel. Revell represented well it on its model in 1/72. I thought that in 1/48, he owed it's the same.
Today, delicate work, to draw and to set up sheet steels.
The first will be cardboard fine, the definitive in plate of polystirene (or polystirol) of 0.5mm and 0.3 mm
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Some pics of fitting
- Place of 20mm Oerlikon
- Headlight and radar tower

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