king derelict

Weathering continues on the hull. I added the light rust washes to the dark rust at the panel joints and below the scuppers (may have overdone that). The coloured images I have don't show any significant rust around the portholes which slightly surprised me but I have left it off. This may be a bit too heavy in places but I wanted to get an Atlantic convoy look. Those little ships really took a pounding out there.

I added rust to the bridge supports and started on the bandstand and 2 pounder gun tub supports. I;m not sure whether to add a light touch to the ventilator stacks otherwise I plan to leave the superstructure relatively clean.

I have rigging thread arriving tomorrow and I'm trying to work out a rigging plan. As in everything else it looks like every Flower was different.

Thanks for looking in

Alan

17 hours ago, lmagna said:

I think that if I was sharing my model sailing space with Alligators then I would want much more than a few pea sized depth charges! Unless they were nuclear! I think I saw somewhere on YouTube where some guy was playing Catch-me-if-you-can like in a bull fight with his Go-fast electric boat while filming it with a drone. The Gator came close several times and it looked like the boat was going to be a goner. Your Corvette may have a longer lifespan if you keep in on the shelf!

I think it might look a bit like a duck from below and if you are an alligator, you can generally afford to bite it and see what you got

Alan

17 hours ago, Veszett Roka said:

Thats a very professional weathering Alan, the hawse pipe looks so real.

Thank you very much. I'm enjoying the weathering but a bit scared of overdoing it

Alan

Really nice and sharp work on the fuselage stripe. Excellent

Alan

Thats quit a dogfight of planes. They look great.

If I need more grip I put a piece of duct tape adhesive side up onto the double sided tape. It seems the tape then has enough area to hold the duct tape securely and the extra stickiness of the duct tape holds the small parts.

Alan

The anchor chain arrived this weekend and i think it looks the part. The proportions are good and it does have stud links

I gave it a base paint of flat brown and then dry brushed a dark blue over it. A rust wash finishes the chain

I used some thin styrene rod to create the antenna loops (I assume these are the DF loops - I'm not knowledgeable in this area) and also made up some speaking tubes for the bridge. I'm trying to make it look a little less empty. I still need to fiddle with teh pelorus

The big moment arrived this afternoon. Weathering. I started with some thin lines of dark rust at the panel lines and then added light rust and washed that out. I'm going to be working this up a little at a time. Its a bit beyond the tiny dabs that finish a 1/700 destroyer build and I'm keen not to mess it up too much. I'm working with the few colour images I can find.

Thank you all for looking in and for the likes

Alan

On 8/3/2022 at 8:41 PM, lmagna said:

Great looking build. It has been following your learning curve and progress. It would have been nice to see it as an RC ship but that's just me. You are doing fantastically.

 

I suspect that in real life what guns were put on in the small calibers was just as you have done, what was available on that day and what the Capitan was able to steal.😁

Thank you for the kind words Lou. Much appreciated. You are right I should have made it an RC model but I have never tried anything RC and the printer seemed like enough of a challenge. The beauty of the virtual kit is that I still have the files, the printer and the license to make as many kits as I want.  So its probable there will be a sister Flower some day in the next year or so on the lake behind my house depth charging the alligators.

Especially as the printing shouldn't be the exercise in patience that it was first time round.

You are right about the small arms configurations. Oerlikons were in short supply and some corvettes never got beyond Lewis guns; I think captains grabbed anything they could get their hands on. Those little ships must have felt very vulnerable under air attack.

Alan

That looks like a very handy thing tohave around. It might have made painting the corvette a bit less of a chore. Your result is really nice

Alan

The painstaking work is really paying off. Looks really good

alan

The details come out so beautifully. Congratulations

alan

The Eduard Lewis guns arrived and are very nice although my PE skills have been atrophying and it took longer than it should to put them together.

They now have a primer coat and hoping not to break them before installing them

The question of the Lewis gun configuration is a bit vexed. It seems that single and twin Lewis gns were mounted, either with or without shields. The picture below is the one I am using as my guide for my interpretation.

The image shows the Lewis gun firing and looks like a single with a shield

Later photos show twin Lewis with shields

I suspect the twin gun installation was the most frequent but I am going to use the singles that I have. I'm not sure about the shield yet; I'll see how some styrene sheet looks.

The reprinted boats were air brushed for the man ropes and bottom boards. Still not perfect' the texture of the print is too rough in places. Its better than my hand painting so we will move forward and weather the bottom boards

The boats need oars and tiller adding and then rigged with the davits. The hull weathering is next and I need to work out what rigging I am going to add.

Thank you for looking in and responding. Its been a long journey from unpacking the Ender printer and switching it on for the first time.

Alan

23 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

She is looking amazing  mate  - really nice work.

 

OC.

Very kind OC

Its stretching my abilities - and sometimes my patience.

Alan

On 8/1/2022 at 8:32 PM, Nirvana said:

Alan, your ship is coming along really nice.
Wish I had come far with mine.

Thank you very much Per

Its felt like a bit of an epic at times

Alan

A stunningly beautiful model. Wonderfully built.

Alan

I'm slowly working away at the details> added handrails to the ladders and Aldis lamps to the bridge wings.

I'm starting to dabble with weathering. I am not using my usual black washes; The lines left by the filament on some parts take up the wash and it looks ugly. I bought this Life Color set of washes a while ago and didn't like them for the usual 1/700 stuff. It goes on as a dark grey but dries very light. The remover can be used to tone down the effect or blend it back.

I think it might work to break up some of the areas that look like big white slabs. I have read that the Atlantic storms took areas of the paint off the hull so it may get used there too.

I painted the smaller smoke floats and added them to the depth charge rails

I decided that my shaky free hand painting was going to spoil the reprinted rafts so I am masking them for air brushing. Its a bit tedious especially as the tape does not adhere well to the printed surface. It will need a coat of clear to seal it before using the air brush.

So - this is where I am now. Coming together. 

I'm trying to work up the courage to start slapping the rust on the hull and parts of the superstructure tomorrow

Thanks for looking in

Alan

You re rolling out some beautiful figures OC

Alan

The wings look great. The detail is very impressive and so is the finish. The magnifiers are a huge help to me. I think I would have had to give up without them. I found a pair that have 5X magnification but the focal length is so short that I am hitting the parts with my nose so I stick with the 3.5 X

Great Job

Alan

That's a great colour scheme and you did a beautiful job 

Alan

That looks excellent, Egilman 

Forgive a stupid question. Did you mask on the Future coated rub n buff?

Alan

Beautiful busy foredeck 

Alan

5 hours ago, Kevin-the-lubber said:

You’re very welcome, they don’t look too bad either. I wondered afterwards if it might have been better to just have small pilot holes in the drum, and drill them out later.

Thank you Kevin

They are really nice little prints and the holes come out very well. I much prefer them to opening out pilot holes. I printed them at 20mm high and the row of holes is quite intricate but still came out nicely.

Many Thanks

Alan

Great painting. The figures look really good

Alan

Beautiful finish; well worth all the experimentation and research. Its going to be a stunning model

Alan

16 hours ago, Nirvana said:

Alan, use hardened steel nozzle they are better and long lasting.

Thank you Per. I looked at steel nozzles a while back and they all seemed to get rotten reviews citing dimensional problems. I checked again and things seem much better now so I ordered a set. Thanks for the help

Alan

A beautiful model. A wonderful job and thoroughly excellent photos

Alan