Anybody build this kit? It is an old kit from Revell Germany at 1/72 scale and finished length over 33". I’ve tried to track a kit down but I haven’t had much luck. Wondering if anybody knows where I could buy one preferably from a Canadian dealer since the US exchange on the loonie is a killer! Thanks.
you may try “Roll Models” I purchased one from them several month ago & their service was good . do a search under that name & you should be able to get a address & info . I know they get that kit from Revell of Germany
I built this one many years ago, when it was marketed under the Matchbox label (same kit). I hope you will not be too disappointed in the lack of detail for what you will have to lay out …
Other than that it went together ok. If you are modelling a specific ship other than Snowberry you may be in for a lot of scratchbuilding as by 1944/45 these ships all looked very different … Snowberry for example was built to RN pattern and RCN corvettes had a different arrangement. In Canadian ships the casing was shorter and the stern squared off to make room for minesweeping gear (removed by 1943). The AA gun was also further aft than on British corvettes.
Some good references you can look for, try Chapters if you want to buy or else the local library:
“The Flower class Corvette Agassiz”, by John McKay and John Harland. This is part of the Anatomy of the ship series and includes ship plans and photos. It is my primary reference for my current project; scratch building HMCS Chicoutimi in 1:48 scale.
Another good one is “Flower Class Corvettes of Canada” by Ken MacPherson and Marc Milner.
I saw one of the Snowberry kits for sale a while ago at Argus Hobbies in Winnipeg. You should be able to find their number in the book (I’m in Alberta).
Good luck, I’d like to hear how your project comes out.
Thanks for the info!
If I am not mistaken these ships were built in the US and the original builder’s drawings are avaliable from the Smithsonian Institution (for a charge). There are also some drawings you can get from the US Navy although I don’t know if the Flower class is one.
Claymore68:
Sorry, but Flowers were not built Stateside, although 18 came to the U.S.N. after Pearl Harbour as part of a reverse lend-lease. The original design came from Smith’s Dock in England, and it is one of the footnotes of history that most of the design team were killed when the prototype ran onto a mine during trials. My references agree that 145 ships were built in the UK, 121 in Canada, and 4 in France, plus 44 Castle class corvettes all in the UK. The French ones were on the stocks when that country fell in 1940 and the ships were taken over by the Kriegsmarine.
Builder’s drawings may very well be available from the Smithsonian (I have not checked that particular source). They are also available from th eNational Maritime museum in Greenwich, UK.
I just ordered one of these from www.phoenix-model.com
I looked all over the place and they seem to be sold out just about evrywhere and on back order.
B. LeCren- Thanks for pointing out my error, probably saved rodc a lot of useless hunting.[B)] Now I’m gonna go nuts trying to remember which Commonwealth ship was built stateside outside of lend-lease.[:p] think went into Naval overload trying to find ANYTHING on thye patrol frigate PF-100 (USS RACINE). Also thanks for pointing out another source of builder’s drawings.
Claymore68:
A lot of corvettes were extensively modified in US East Coast yards later in the war. Canadian yards were too busy and too slow to take on the work of extending forecastles etc. Maybe that is what has you thinking?
Afraid I’m not up on patrol frigates.
The NMM is an excellent source, but a bit pricey. You do get excellent product though, right back to Nelson’s navy.
Iron Shipwright makes the long fo’cs’l version but I don’t have any experiance with this maker so I don’t know if its any good. Also check with BaD Models. (BaD is not a typo)
As to the PFs the were a couple hundred made and they ended up all over the globe(Thiland, Vietnam, China, USSR to name a few).
HI, MY NAME IS FRANCO. I AM BUSY WITH REVEL 1/72 FLOWER CLASS CORVETT.
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Franco,
You can not host or link images from your hard drive.
But we would still love to see your Corvette.
You can create a free account here
And then upload your images, then come back and provide us with the name of your account, or a link to the photo album.
The free accounts are eventually shut down, but It is a nice place to temporarily share images.
You are also welcome to create a photo album here.
http://communities.msn.com/ModelersAndHobbyForum
OR, create a new topic, and post one image per post in this forum, but you need to make sure the pictures largest dimension are all less the 400 pixels in size before you post them, or they may get deleted.
http://www.microrccenter.com/forum/index.php?s=d42baef71c3f26fe57a9abdb22bf2c52&act=SF&f=26
Franco,
Thanks for the message, and the Picture link.
Nice build up. Keep up the great work, and the progress pics.
Hi
I have built 2 corvette kits. The first I modified into HMCS Sackville which is still afloat in Halifax. The second was a OOB kit as the HMCS Snowberry.
I stumbled on this web site http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/flower/index/htm which has much info on the little Flower class ships.
My third kit will be mor modified but is still in the box yet.
-Tom
sorry
Corvette link is http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/flower/index.htm (dot not slash htm)
-Tom
Revel has re-realeased the kit. I have made 2.
The main gun is VERY simple but there is an Australian corvette at Williamstown Victoria.
They have a club that is restoring it.
It has provided me with great tech data.
Regards
PS,
They built them at Williamstown and it still is a navey construction yard.
Maybe you can get informaTION OFF THEM 
Hold it!! The Australian Corvettes were NOT the same as the Flowers!! The Australian Minesweeping Corvettes (AMC) were an Australian design which were built in many dockyards all around Australia. They had two screws, a single 4" gun and several 20mm AA guns. They were typicaly “Maids of all Work”. Surveying beaches for landings, convoy escorts, Sub hunters, rescue ships and even minesweeping. They did not venture into the Atlantic Battle because they were considered to be under gunned in the AA role. Some were un officially equiped with 40mm Bofors but thats another story. Several companies in Australia make hulls and semi kits for the Bathurst Class AMCs in both 1:72 and 1:96 scales. Taskforce 72 have the information and a website. As for Flowers several English companies have plans for both long and short forecastle versons. Note also that the funnel could be raked or vertical. Books will show the variations.
TTFN Dai.
I posted a request for info on the HMCS Morden, as I am building the Snowberry kit as such. I will not repeat the question(s) here, from the other post, but I wanted to say that I have a family connection to the Corvettes, as my father’s brother, was one of the designers of the refitted engines from #55 onwards Uncle Pat was responsible for part of the steam return lines, etc, as these were fitted to the Canadian built Corvettes that were done in Quebec/Ontario shipyards. Uncle Pat also worked on the Tribal Class ships that Canada started, and was on one that had the 6-8 hour fight off of Halifax. As he was a civilian engineer, he and his crew did not get the awards that came with the sinking of the U-Boat, that the rest of the crew got. My father, tried for 20+ years to get him some kind of recocition for this fact, as his crew kept the ship working while the skeleton crew fought the German sub. My dad was in the Army at the time this was happening, and he was a D-Day vet, so I have lots of stories, plus the 5 medals my dad got in France, in 1944. Unfortunately Uncle Pat died in 1971, and his children were not interested in keeping the history alive, so the stories of working on the Corvettes are lost to history! Oh Well?!! Rob Savage
I have both the Matchbox and the Revell kit. Built one for R/C and have the other for static.
Go to Loyalhanna Dockyard (www.loyalhannadockyard.com)
and check out all the upgrades that are available for this model.