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Hello. It's been a long time. Many years ago as teenager I played into rather forgotten now PC video game Enigma Rising Tide which was arcade style game about what-if WWII naval scenario. Even in such time I was suprised when I saw strange-looking escort vessel looking like highly modified Flower class corvette with anormally looking pyramid of aa guns platforms, serving in German Navy. Due to fact that most vessels in such game were purely fictious or very highly modified vessels from real world countries I was almost sure that such ship was just imagination of developers. However I was wrong. Such ships really existed although their names were different as same as their first owner. Four French built Flower class corvettes were captured in 1940 in French yards and after long reconstruction three of them entered sevrice in Kriegsmarine. Their service was rather short but very active and all of them were destroyed in days after D-Day. They were reconstructed as AA escort ships with minesweeping capabilities, their French armament was removed and instead were armed with 1*I 105mm gun, 2*I 20mm guns 2*IV 20mm guns, 2*II ( or 1*I and 1*II ) 37mm guns. http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/GALLERY/German/PA2-1.jpg PA-2 on photo. Maybe I'm blind but setup of 37mm AA seems as 1*I and 1*II. Flower class corvettes have such funny looking shiluettes and were rather popular subject among manufacturers with many kits availaible on market. However there is small problem. French Flowers were akin to first ships of this class what means different forecastle, much shorter than made with plastic kits. However I found card model of HMCS Agassiz by Polish publisher Modelik which depicts Flower in very early variant in scale 1:100 and has really amazing level of details. I rescaled some of pages into 1:144 and decided to merge such parts with HMCS Snowberry by Revell. I like this ships so it's most probably not only vessel from such class which I want to build. Original HMCS Snowberry or pink painted HMS Anchusa are strong candidates for second Flower. There is little source for such unique version so many work will be probably based on solutions known from other ships in such era. Most of info comes from such site http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/PROFILE/German_Flower.htm Years ago I made such ship in 1/350 from Mirage Hobby kit but there is little comparison due to size. Box is BIG and it's not marketing trick. I bought also wooden deck for such ship but not sure did I use them as German Flowers most probably never wore wooden deck. Decks are cut into parts. Midship section as same as big parts of superstructure will be taken from rescaled xero of Modelik HMCS Agassiz. Parts of xero will be moved into polystyren sheets of various thickness. AA guns will be 3d printed AA guns from Polish manufacturer Modelhobby. Sides are corrected to the short forecastle variant. As shape I used Agassiz parts. Not sure about ASW and minesweeping gear but most probably I make 6 single drop chutes, 3 per side and 4 deph charge throwers, 2 per side as areformentioned photo suggest such thing. Last thing. My 1/144 coastal submarines collection. I definitely must make something from surface. List of them: 1.British submarine HMS Holland 1 - first sub of Royal Navy 2. Austro-Hungarian submarine SMS U-10 from German U-boot Type UB-1 class, 3. Imperial Russian submarine Delfin, one of first Russian submarines ( torpedoes are mounted on specific mounts called Drzewiecki drop collars ( used mainly on French and Russian submarines, with few examples in other countries ), 4. Type IIB U-Boot U-23. Combat boat of famous highest scoring WWII submarine ace Otto Kretschmer. This boat in 1942 was moved in really interesting journey via land and Danube river into Romanian base and operated against VMF. Whole 30'th U-Boot Black Sea Flotilla scored some hits on soviet mostly smaller vessels. All six boats were sunk by soviet air raids or scuttled near Turkish coast after Romania and Bulgaria change of sides. 5. Type XXIII U-Boot U-2336. Last naval action of WWII in Europe when such boat sunk two allied merchants. Last one was sunk literally few minutes or hour before armistice. First three are from small Ukrainian manufacturer Mikromir, which make plenty of submarines in various scales, often less known or prototypes. Type IIB is from ICM while Type XXIII is from Trumpeter. Collective case for "coastal" boats.
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Hello Everyone, This is my attempt to build the Flower Class corvette HMCS Snowberry (1/72) in the May 1943 configuration (after Charleston, SC refit) And yes, again a Snowberry. I am working on the old Revell / Matchbox kit, unfortunately not the newer Platinum version. The following aftermarket photoetch & 3d printed parts will be used: David J. Parkins, Great Little Ships https://www.djparkins.com/home.php?cat=303&sort=orderby&sort_direction=0&page=3 - Flower Class deck & fitting set - Flower Class Corvette type “C” Bridge - Funnel and Mast Set - 9” Scuttle set - robe rails (stations) - 4” gun Mark IX - 2pdr. Pom-Pom Gun - 20 mm Oerlikon guns - Hedgehog Micro Masters https://micromaster.co.nz/ - 14’ Drifter Dinghys - Depth Charge Rails - Depth Charge Thrower - 10” signaling projector - 4” gun (maybe) XY Models distributed by Hobby Easy https://www.hobbyeasy.com/en/category/SHP/20/1/maker/YXN.html" - 3D printed Anchor chain Archer Resin Surface Details https://archertransfers.com/SurfaceDetailsMain.html - Resin Rivets HGW Models https://hgwmodels.cz/en/ - Resin Rivets H&B Hobbies https://www.hbhobbies.com/ - RN Colorcoats paints Hecker & Goros Zinnfiguren http://www.hecker-goros.de/products - 1-72.htm - Royal Navy 1939-1945 Gunthwaite Miniatures distributed by Halifax Modellversuch World https://www.halifaxmodellersworld.co.uk/gunthwaite-miniatures-238-c.asp - British and Commonwealth Seamen Accurate Model Part (AMP) https://amp.rokket.biz/ - Ensign Flag Looking forward to comments and feedback and here we go … -
I have always wanted to build HMCS Snowberry and learn about it's history along the way. I found this version of the ship, it is made by Revell Germany and was created in 2016. From what I can see it is pretty accurate and comes with a lot of detail in the scale. I have found that you can purchase three different sheets of photo etch (PE) for this model but they are fairly expensive. From what I can see the detail with out the PE is still very good, for this reason I'm going to do a out of box build. As soon as I have some progress to show I will be posting an update. I hope everyone enjoys following along with my build Thanks, CK
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