Revell 1/144 Flower Class Corvette full build with Pontos detail set Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2021
- In this, the first episode of the Flower Class Corvette build, we assemble the hull and prepare the decks for the Pontos brass parts.
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I've just ordered mine; I'm going to do her up as HMCS Moose Jaw, my dad's first ship in WW2.
Good luck with that it should be a nice tribute.
@@TheModelShed thanks. It's been decades since I built a model so I'm going to do some other builds to upscale my skill set.
Well K166 - HMCS Snowberry was sadly scrapped in my hometown of Middlesbrough. Getting back to modelling so these instructional videos are a godsend. Thanks
you’re welcome Norman 👍
I love your idea of cutting open the box and re-tapping
Yes - shame Revell can’t do it for us 🤬
I’ve been waiting for this…. I can stop watching ’The Cruel Sea’ and follow along with you.
You can Dave but I’m no Jack Hawkins 🤔
Please keep these coming, really enjoy your work
Will do Jason thanks
Looks like a good start. Looking ahead to the next part.
Thanks Steven
Steve, thanks for the premier, they make my week
Me too Ralph - great to chat with you guys
Lovely to find this. I worked onboard HMCS Sackville K181 in Halifax Nova Scotia for four summers in the early half of the 1990s.
Yes and I used the sackville for reference during the build 👍
The Hood was magnificent Steve, looking forward to this next build 👌🏾😸
Thanks Andrew it’s nice to start with a new project.
You redesigned the Revell box. Love it. 😀
Had to Neil - can’t stand end opening boxes
Evening Sir,glad to see you started a new build, looking forward to the folowing part :)
Part 2 will be 17/9 and every Friday in the usual slot
Hello Steve. Good to see a new promising build series on it´s way. Will enjoy it every Friday...
Thanks Ralf-Ingo its nice to be off with a fresh new build.
Thanks I've always wanted to build a model of this type of ship. I will watching as you build this one. It looks to be a large undertaking!
I think so Ted but after the Hood she looks quite manageable
Thanks for your reply I want to watch your build of the Hood. Your work on these kits is really great to watch
Steve - I thoroughly enjoyed the Hood build - very well done. I look forward to the Friday Night Videos - I might build this one along with you!
Thanks John - please do - we can share notes it would be a big help.
Great beginning to what looks to be a nice kit.
Cheers Greg
Just found you. Fellow ship builder , here. You're subbed. I'll be watching. 👍
Cheers Charlie
Like the Friday videos, look forward to them.
Me too - gives me something to aim for every week 👍
Quite enjoyable. Good information and techniques for hull parts which have issues.
Thanks Frank
It is so funny, my uncle Martin served as radio operater on the snowberry during all of ww2. He told me once he and a few others were having a smoke on the top roof by the front steering deck whe they saw a torpedo approaching them midship and before they could spring into action the torpedo pasted under them as the corvettes tended to Bob on the water.
Nice story Thanks for sharing
Wow I really like the tip of opening the box like that I gotta try that
Its much easier to access the parts especially if the spurs are labelled more clearly too
Timely, I am about to start this model in a week or so myself. Although probably not doing the PE, just the base kit. Thanks and will be following with interest.
Good luck with it Scott hope it goes well.
Oh I've been waiting for this.
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It's nice to see that "ederly sailors" still indulge in their hobbies. Modeling needs a certain degree of mental maturity, a lot of experience, a steady hand and technical knowledge to build models in "museum quality". Younger people prefer videogames, but seasoned persons are rather rare in this field; for modeling it's just the other way round...
Thanks and the age thing is an interesting observation. If I look at my analytics a tiny proportion (much less than 1%) are in the 18-34 age bracket. I find that most viewers are a similar age to me. Maybe the expense of kits, accessories and materials may also be a factor as well as time: I suppose retirement gives plenty of it to see through a build like this.
Awesome as expected
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Nice workshop!
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Super first vid. informative & enjoyable.
Thanks for that Rob
Hello from Italy, I'm building this exact model after a 20 / 25 years hiatus from model kits (minus the Pontos set, I wanted to keep it simpler for my first real kit since I was a kid). I'm very glad I found your video, I'll try to tag along but my full time job doesn't allow for much building time during the work-week I'm afraid.
Also the hull in my kit was quite a bit more warped than yours, it felt I needed to be an octopus to put it together and had to order some putty to fully cover the small gaps.
I appreciated the lower cost of the kit, especially for a "new beginner" like me, but it comes with its issues.
Hi It’s great to hear that you’ve got back into the hobby after the break and the Flower is a great subject to get back to it. My hull has turned out ok but agreed - it does need quite a bit of work to get right. Stick with it and we’ll get this one done together! 👍
If anyone can turn this kit into master piece Steve it's you.
Shame that revel still have issues with there kit's..
Would loved to see you build the updated 1/72 flower class Corvette.
Looks like it's been discontinued sadly.
Hi Gary. I think the 1/72 would have been too much work. I wanted a simpler build as a bit of a rest between the hood and Bismarck next year.
I built the bigger version many years ago. I bought some resin extras and some upgrade handrails. Before the days of ebay searches to find just about anything. I had some parts sent from America for my last built 😄
Hi Tommy. I’ll be adding some 3D parts to this so there’s plenty of upgrades available for the 144. Its one of the reasons I chose this over the 1/72
@@TheModelShed I am looking forward to it.
Good ol' Fridays and Pontos!
After flipping my 1/72nd hull about my cramped model desk i can see the wisdom in the 1/144, shame it wasn't 1/200 to scale with your Hood model. A little miffed you are doing the Canadian model but i can still borrow your wisdom and insight for my bigger HMS Bluebell as the differences are not so different. Great start on yours, i'm still fixing up the stern plating on mine!
FYI. I found a picture showing the wooden deck panel on a 'Flower' and it was a good four inches higher than the steel plate.
Good luck with your 1/72 - I've heard its a difficult build in places. The smaller size is one of the reasons I went for the 1/144
@@TheModelShedthe 1/72 is a challenging kit but once finished it’s an amazing kit. It was my first ship build and enjoyed (for the most part) building.
Off to a fine start. I watched another build of this kit a few years back, and I believe there is an issue with the quarter deck sitting too low. I believe it was the deck wasn't flush with scuppers on the sides and stern, but with my memory, I am mostly wrong. Looking forward to your build as I was with the Hood.
Thanks for that heads up Mark - I’ll check that out
I bought both the kit and the pontos set on the strength of your review
Hope you can tag along Charlie
@@TheModelShed I will,I'm starting my build next sunday,I'm in 🇭🇷 Croatia on holiday and am back on Saturday.
Hi Steve, just starting to watch this build for a second time. Can I ask please ask, did you do a review of the Pontos set for this model because I can't seem to find one on your channel.. Best wishes Vic.
Hi Vic - No I didn't do a review of the Pontos set for this one - Sorry
Would some pieces of sprue or styrene rod not be beneficial in those redundant holes to give more bracing to the hull ?
Possibly Jerry but with the deck in place the hull is pretty stiff.
Hi mate. Great videos spent many a night watching them as I've recently been given the HMS Snowberry model kit and have been watching your videos for tips.
I'm looking at paints and I actually want to make this model as close to HMS Clematis as I possibly can as my great grandad served on the ship.
Would you by any chance have any tips as to find out which colours to use to replicate the colours of it when it was in service in WW2?
Also, a brand that you prefer?
Any link you can share would be fantastic.
Hope it looks half as good as yours
Tha ks for the videos.
Keep it going!
thanks Sean. I suggest you go over to sovereign hobbies where you’ll find information about colour schemes. Flowers carries different colours so you need to know what applies to your particular build. If you get the RN colour names from sovereign you can match them to your your own paint range or use their own colourcoats range.
I rebuilt one of these kits - the old multi-coloured sprue version! - into a reasonable facsimile of HMCS Alberni once. It was through my work, and a rare charitable job on the part of my boss, so there was no question of a set of metal details being thrown into the bargain. The kit had been donated to an upstart museum and the operator was desperate for someone to save the day and turn into the -ahem- short forecastle version corvette he required. The result was a grade B, I think, as I hadn't the time or resources to build a true museum model, but the client was over the Moon with the results.
Imagine the air going out of my sails when I took the opportunity to visit a hobby shop in another town and saw, on display, a beautifully, built, re-detailed, and weathered version of the kit. The owner confirmed the incorporation of a metal details kit, and my satisfaction with my Alberni just sank! I have to take satisfaction in having made one of very few short-bow models out there.
Something I learned many years ago is that it doesn’t matter how good we think we are there’s always someone better or with some new ways of doing something. I’d build a model then go to a model show and wonder why I bothered.
Maybe Revell expects you to put some sprue lengths into those holes on the inside of the hull so they can brace the hull. The hull seems a bit flimsy.
You could add some braces but with the deck in place the hull is pretty stiff.
I understand its a left over from scaling down the 1/72 scale original.
@@TheModelShed a quick search of scalemates shows braces in the 1/72 kit so it does look like your suspicions about them being artefacts from the reduction are correct 👍
Talking of the Pontos instructions, I generally view them on my laptop or iPad, the one ig advantage of which is that you can zoom in which can be very handy for working out which way to fold some of the smaller pieces.
In addition, any changes / improvements will be incorporated in the on-line instructions. But the idea of putting the Pontos instruction in a plastic sleeve is also good (some people aren't comfortable with electronics). I've found Pontos sheets to be extremely fragile and easily abraded.
That’s what I ended up doing with my Hood. I agree it’s very handy being able to zoom in to view the details in the instructions
Is this a new kit? I have seen a model of the Flower-class Corvette, though I had thought it was in 1:72nd scale.
It’s a few years old now David - 2016. The 1/72 is even older the original matchbox release was 1979.
I agree about the boxing of Revell box kits. Terrible design and hard to open. Impossible to store the kit while building. Revell...what were you thinking?
Seems to me it’s an economy thing with them being thin as well?
Which Corvette will you build ?
I'm going for an easy life and doing her as Snowberry Nick. I'm hoping that Revell and Pontos have done their homework and it will build accurately from those kits. Who knows there will probably be a few inaccuracies along the way.
@@TheModelShed I decided I hated white ship came base and halted my build for a while. I'd prefer to find a none western approaches scheme to apply to the Revell ship, but haven't found time todo any research yet.
(I still have the 1/72 scale version in the stash, but that needs a lot of resin or 3D printed extras, which I'm currently reluctant to spend given I don't have the display space).
Evening all
Evening Stuart
It looks so tiny compared to the size of the Hood! 🙂
Yes - plenty of space on the bench for this one.
Good evening Steve, in regards to the primer Mr Surfacer 1500 did you thin it down and if so what was the ratio, Looking forward to this build
Hi Paul yes I thin the 1500 50% with mr hobby lacquer thinners. It dries to a lovely satin sheen at that ratio which shows up errors better than the grey which is a bit more Matt.
@@TheModelShed Is there any reason why you don't use Mr Surfacer 1000 as a primer as I think I will use this for the hood build. I have never used this product so need all the help I can
I miss the Hood build already but this is a good replacement. Do you plan on doing any "canning" on the hull plates? I know smaller ships like destroyers, mine layers, etc. had pretty rough plate work. It was further stressed in action. Looking at photos of K181 it looks like someone took a large hammer to it. Regardless, this should be a really interesting build. Watching intently!
No I won’t be doing that Charlie - I’d only go and mess it up I think.
Hou could laminate the instructions i have done it whit the instructions for the Revell Bismarck 1/350 platinium
That’s a good alternative too 👍
Hi, Steve, I continue to watch your videos, I haven't bought a corvette yet, but I'm planning to add a German submarine to it for completeness. That is, the fact that he threw depth charges. By the way, why don't you respond to an email sent to you by email?
Hi Sergey. when did you email me and what address did you use? I’ve checked my folders including the spam folders and I can’t see anything. please could you resend to themodelshedchannel@gmail.com
did these ships not have a steel deck? not wood. the cruel sea movie, has a flower class in it, it does not appear to have a wooden deck. (excellent movie)
Hi. You’re right the Flowers did have steel decks but some had limited areas of wooden deck particularly ahead of the 4” mounting. The Snowberry certainly had this but probably not the wooden bridge decks which Pontos supply.
CAN IT BECOME RC MODEL BOAT？
I know nothing about RC boats sorry.
A one piece hull would have saved a lot of time & effort.
It would Neil - I think they’d have to use slide molds and I think it would have increased the cost maybe?
When the PE costs more than the actual model.
Ridiculous 😂
Often the case. My next project is a £115 tornado with £150 of aftermarket on it. It's sometimes the way of the hobby these days
Further, Steve. I’m not sure if this photo of what I am referring to will post. i.pinimg.com/736x/28/8e/2a/288e2ac3e7e2f02a76255da455dee8d5.jpg. So, it seems the steel deck was not featureless, but I do not have model in hand. Just planning ahead. At 1/144 I could at least scribe some seams. I have no plans though.
Steve, seems I edited out most my earlier query. I was asking if there were weld, rivet, and nonskid details in Revell’s rendering of the steel decks