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Topic review - 1/72 Flower Class Corvette - HMCS CHILLIWACK 1942
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  Post subject:  Re: 1/72 Flower Class Corvette - HMCS CHILLIWACK 1942  Reply with quote
Some more shots:

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Quarter
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Beam
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Here you get to see the run of the ship and how many fittings have been added.
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Here the bridge detail is shown.
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Lastly the mine sweeping gear.
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Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2018 4:29 pm
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Thank you Joe Simon, Harpy and K494,

On went the rigging (in black, white or tan thread as per the rigging diagrams I located).

Here is a bow and quarter view.

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Only inaccuracy I know of was I had to and a preventer stay to the ensign staff since the flag was a little too heavy and caused some wilting (actually I have one other with two missing portholes on the starboard bow). Flag is an accurate cotton in miniature form from BECC Model Accessories (they were a great on-line store and even let me return some flags when I ordered the wrong size) and has been dipped in Orange Pekoe Tea to give it the weathered look. Now it is a Sunday Ensign so you can actually see it.

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I think my attempt at a neutral background was a bit of a bust, the plastic sheet was too wrinkled and that detracts from the image, oh well live and learn.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2018 6:13 pm
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She looks Top Notch,CB. :thumbs_up_1:
Post Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 6:19 am
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Very nice. :thumbs_up_1:
Post Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 12:09 am
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Very impressive and fast work on this. You have put a lot into this. :thumbs_up_1:
Post Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2018 6:02 pm
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More painting photos.

So the fo'c'sle has had the gun mount (forward bandstand) secured and the 4 inch presently can rotate…going to leave that until I am certain of a direction to aim it. The anchor chain was secured and presently they do support the weight of the two plastic anchors.
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At the bow you can see some of the grey of the undercoat peaking though some damage, probably as the anchor was raised. You can also see the draft marks right at the stem.

I added clear plastic to represent the glass windows in the wheelhouse and the ASDIC Hut.
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I was going to place black polystyrene behind them because there are no internal fittings in either space, but they did not look right, as it is the inside bulkheads, decks and deck head have been painted flat black.

Another picture of the bridge, you can see the voice pipes forward of the ASDIC hut, and there is even a pipe coming from the crows nest snaking in just between the mast and forward bridge shield.
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The Mine sweeping Gear on the sweep deck aft. I just had to dirty up the yellow mine sweeping floats.
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Depth Charges have been added to the rails and I even added the locking and release bars.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 5:18 pm
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Added the rust, I used some weathering powders, burnt umber oil, and lacquer thinner. I added it to the decks in the scuppers and drains, as much of the rust particulate would make its way there after getting washed down with rain and sea spray. I did a wash of black ink with lacquer thinner first, so it blended with the rust as grime and soot would have. Then I streaked some from the scuppers down the sides of the hull and from the hawse pipe. The anchor chain also received a healthy dose as in a ship the anchor cable has the links banging against each other constantly and is one of the first places rust starts to build from.

All these photos are without rigging (for mast, davits, cranes, hoists, etc), and the port holes are still covered in tape…just noticed that. ;)

I did less rust on the upper works, as this is where the ship’s company would have tried to battle the rust build up with paint…so what rust I did use I diffused with extra lacquer thinner where it could be reached easily.
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Here you can see that I added the canvas straps for the lifeboats (made from 0.010 by 0.060 polystyrene strips), something quite prominent in most photos.

So I glued down the superstructure and added the depth charges. Here you can also see the lines added to the rope reels for the Dan buoys as well as one of the Carley Floats.
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The straps for the Carley Float were made from tin foil and a slice of polystyrene tubing to make the ring.

Another picture of the forward Carley Floats, additional floats were added aft due to the increase in crew size and the fact some Corvettes were known to drop floats near sinking vessels to aid in getting survivors out of the water.
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One more photo showing the depth charges, this photo also shows some of the grime and soot that has run off the funnel casing deck.
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Still need to add rigging, including the three colours of thread based on the drawings from Warship Perspectives: Flower Class Corvettes in World War Two by John Lambert.

By 1942 most of the un-milled steel issues had resolved themselves because the grime layer had already worked through the previous navy grey schemes in 1941, so the reason for less paint chips. There would also be lots of chips and sanding at midships due to Corvettes grinding against one another in St. John's harbour where fenders did not cover.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2018 3:39 pm
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So I have started the weathering, the soot and grime that comes from Oil fired ships who sailed in convoy with coal-fired freighters of the SC (Slow Convoys) that became the favoured targets of the Kriegsmarine’s U-Boat arm. I cannot leave a model with it’s pristine paint…as within minutes of painting the elements and regular use with start to corrode/chip/dirty up everything. Especially on a heavily used escort ship that sailed back and forth across the Atlantic in the middle of a world war.

First, the ship with soot and grime (rust has not been added yet), in this photo the Corvette is starting to look nearly done.

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Nothing is really glued down yet as I have to add the window glass after all sealing is done, due to time constraints I will just have a black backing on the glass so the wheelhouse and Asdic house interiors will not be visible. The grime is a mixture of black wash, water and lacquer thinner (to prevent the water tension in the wash beading). After this was applied over a glass varnish it was rubbed down with more lacquer thinner to create the streaks.

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Midships
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I have started making straps for the Carley floats (need to do some for the lifeboats next), they are simply tin foil folded over to make a strap with some cut up polystyrene tubing for the ring…trouble now is painting them as the tin foil is not the best medium to paint on.

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The off-yellow floats are a little pristine still, they were actually that colour for no known reason. I have actually used a couple of GW hand grips from a tank kit to make the top bracket which was a basically the top of a large triangle, for this scale the handle is good enough.

So next up is the rust and then the rigging…just need to get the lifeboats right and add the straps...then the rust...then gluing down everything and placing the depth charges.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 11:32 am
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Thank you K494,

More photos in better light, now I am starting the highlights and touch-ups before the first coat of varnish before weathering.

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Quarterdeck
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Focsle
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Just the base colours, nothing more at this point.

Never use any form of spray paint on thread…word to the wise.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:55 pm
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You're doing a fantastic job on her,CB. :thumbs_up_1:

Scott
Post Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 7:55 am
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Here are some WIP shots of the model as it gets its basecoat. For paints I have been using White Ensign Model enamels (all based on the real paint chips of the period), Games Workshop Acrylics and Vallejo Acrylics.

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For colours I made several checks, speaking with Ted Paxton and Cully Lancaster about colours of the corvettes they sailed in, as well as the handful of black and white photographs available. I also tried to use the colour photographs of ARROWHEAD and WEYBURN, but this last source caused some problems, because when I painted the hull it just did not look right…

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(Photo source DND Archives Project Pride Ken Macpherson Collection)

CHILLIWACK looks to have been in the Western Approaches Dazzle Paint Scheme in 1942, a change from the standard grey that corvettes where painted when first built. There was a fair bit of leeway given to captains, for example Ted Paxton says that SHEDIAC’s captain had grey mixed with everything to give the ship a simple grey toned dazzle paint.

But from descriptions provided with the black and white photos I know CHILLIWACK was a little more like this:
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I traded some emails with Bob Pearson, who did the coloured paint scheme images for the Shipcraft Special: Flower Class Corvettes

At first glance it looks like the corvette has only two colours:

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(Photo source DND Archives Project Pride Ken Macpherson Collection)

The large dark triangles are WA Green, and the hull would be the off white of the RN/RCN.

WA Blue is so light that it is almost impossible to notice unless you look for it (so I thought I might have a bad batch and opened another tin and used a different agent to thin it for painting...and it was just as faint...or perhaps a little bolder). However the paint chips Jon Warneke and Jeff Herne showed that the WA Blue is really light and that the blue from the colour photo of WEYBURN was probably B6 or 507A. I read somewhere that CO's could replace any missing colour with 507C and Ted Paxton says his CO insisted that it get mixed with each of the colours so that SHEDIAC was a series of greys.

With that in mind you can see a slight change in colour on the 4 Inch and on the bridge wings with a diagonal, especially in this photo:

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(Photo source DND Archives Project Pride Ken Macpherson Collection)

There is even a little contrast on the dodger on the bridge deck. It also looks like the funnel and ventilators might be WA Blue (as the large hatch cover between the ventilators is probably white) with WA Green for the top funnel band.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:36 pm
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Another update,

So here are the Dan Buoys, the last main item that needed to be completed before painting:

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They are a little further aft than the drawings, but some of the photographs of the Engine Room Casing have them moved back (I suspect a correction made during construction, it was noted in research that many modifications took place during the building because the drawings from the UK had never been finalized prior to their sending to Canada...hence the mainmast still being listed and added to RCN Corvettes when first built).

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Now I have started painting…having never used an air-brush before this has been a bit of an experience…and a messy one. The white is now on…the trouble with an airbrush is that I have to do it outside (not having any sort of space to use it with proper ventilation)…which in Vancouver weather has been quite challenging.

Spoke with some veterans again on some of the colours. Carley Floats were a grey colour and the floats for the mine sweeping gear were painted an off-yellow rather than white.

Next update I should have the base coats down, just waiting for a dry day to do the Green and Blue.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2018 12:20 pm
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Now that the major additions and changes have been made I still have some minor changes and upgrades. Those little things that were overlooked in the model kit and in my planning…

Starting the last of the mine sweeping gear, here are the rope reels (I used the kit parts for the focsle reels and boat deck reels), I added handles made from kit railing sprue.

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Next up for the Engine Room Casing is the Dan buoy storage which will be outside the pipe rails.

On the aft end of the Engine Room Casing I added the gong and on the aft bandstand the stern running light, which was originally mounted on the end of the deck, according to the Burrard Dry Dock drawings, however in photos it was quickly moved up to the bandstand for better visibility. Also added a ladder and a circuit box against the casing.

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The depth charges sitting on the deck needed major work, so I simply cut off the sides to make them the right dimensions, and then added a 10 x 10 mm square cut from 0.010 thickness polystyrene for the holder portion of the carrier. Some styrene tubing made the stalks for the carriers and viola…instant depth charges.

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Here are the supports added under the extended bridge wings, CHILLIWACK was one of the first Corvettes to get extended Bridge Wings…but sadly the 20mm Oerlikons intended to be placed there were slow to arrive so she kept her .50 Cal twin mounts…however it did save on the supports (once the Oerlikons were mounted they added bracing to prevent the bridge wings sagging)…although there is a picture of ALBERNI with sagging experienced with just the twin .50 Cal mounts.

Based on the photos of CHILLIWACK and some other short fo'c'sle Corvettes as these were additions beyond the initial drawings I have of CHILLIWACK.

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Speaking of mounts, here are my second, larger versions:

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I also found the photograph I am using shows that CHILLIWACK added some splinter mats to the canvas dodgers on the 4 foot pipe rails on the bridge so I made six more out of epoxy putty (I am especially proud of the one sagging at the top corner as a line has come loose). I also added another locker and finally the MF/DF navigation coil made from kit railing rod and some extra sprue.

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Dan Buoys and a few bits and bobs and I will be done construction.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2018 5:52 pm
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As mentioned above, after speaking with some folks who remembered sailing with CHILLIWACK and the best photo of the period I am building that the weapon for the aft bandstand is the 2 Pounder Pom-Pom.

So the kit variant is again almost just a “simulated” item to represent the 2 Pounder (the name Pom-Pom comes from the sound the weapon made, it was an anti-aircraft weapon designed to use up the vast stocks of 2 pound ammunition left over from the First World War) and it could only pass for the weapon from a great distance.

So I began by cutting out a shield from 0.010 thickness styrene, embossing some rivets with my stitch marking roller.

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Then I added some more styrene to make the supporting frame using the drawings from Anatomy of the Ship: Agassiz and Shipcraft Special: Flower Class Corvettes

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I did use the base (although I had to sand down the bottom support to fit my rebuilt aft bandstand) and I cut off most of the raised portions on the top to move the shield forward to account for the foot stands. This picture also has the side supports cut from another sheet of left over styrene.

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Here is a slightly earlier picture of the aft bandstand with the hole that this weapon will pivot in.

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The barrel was built from styrene tubing and the muzzle cut from the kit weapon (with the end drilled out to give the impression of a hollow barrel), picture of this was too small and fuzzy to share. The breach was made from sprue as was the magazine hopper. For the magazine I used some thin styrene rod and cut into small dowels and laid them side by side, then some angle bracket was laid over the ends to make it look like an ammunition feed (you can see that the best in the top down picture).

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Also added a pair of my home made wheels for training and elevation, plus some discs and other extra styrene rod and some kit railing material for the aiming bars…afraid my targeting rings are rather solid, but I just don’t have the fine etched brass bits to use.

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Top down look so you can see the foot rests. These I made from plain styrene card (0.020 thickness) and them some fine screen mesh was glued on top of it to create the tread effect. You can also see the ammunition hopper on the right and a look at the top of the aiming bars. My swinging hinge is also a little warped, but other than that not to bad.

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Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2018 4:40 pm
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The windlass has been a long standing project that needed to get done. The kit comes with a very simple “simulacrum” that really is sad looking.

Here are the parts:
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Drawings from Anatomy of the Ship: Agassiz

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First attempt to use the kit parts…

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That was a failure.:(

I then tried getting a windlass from Sirmar Model Fittings, here it is in comparison; unfortunately it is a different pattern than those used on the West Coast built RCN Corvettes, it appears to be a UK merchant ship design.

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Attempt number two…

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The more complete version, this one I am happy with.
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I made the drums out of styrene card cut into discs and glued together, gearing was with aluminum foil, stamped with the rim of a medicine bottle and glued on with superglue. Drums were made from furniture plugs sanded down with a Dremel, then some styrene added around the edge (0.015 by 0.060) and some cross pieces (0.020 by 0.020). Brake handles were made from the railing styrene supplied in the kit.

I used the base and two of the sets of rollers from the kit, and some of the railings for rod, two stanchions cut down as supports and three of the windlass parts together to make some of the motors, rest was all styrene rod and discs...and a little imagination. :)

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2018 1:40 pm
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Well I am getting into the final details; one part that has been long delayed is the secondary armament. Corvettes tended to mount whatever was available; about the only common fitting was the World War One 4 Inch gun forward. Although documentation today states a 4 Inch deck gun, 2 X 20mm Oerlikons, Hedgehog and 2 Pound Pom-Pom these were the fittings on later corvettes with extended focsles and the supply of secondary armament had been sorted out in 1944.

Ted Paxton who sailed in HMCS SHEDIAC had identified twin .50 Calibre Machine Guns on the bridge wings and that SHEDIAC had another pair mounted in the aft bandstand (these were later replaced with the 2 Pound Pom-Pom) and when the bridge-wings were extended and given struts the Oerlikons replaced the bridge mounts.

The earliest photos of CHILLIWACK definitely have a paired mounting of some kind aft (likely twin .50 Calibre Machine Guns) but at some point these were replaced with a Pom-Pom as a photo in 1943 when the 271 Radar was added she has the 2 pounder.

So armed with this information I decided to build four twined .50 Calibre Mounts (Browning Machine Guns) and a Pom-Pom to be safe…

First up was the .50 Cals and I started with some plastic styrene tubing, then some square and rectangular strips and cut them down to scale. I also used some more 1/35 scale tank treads which I was trimming down to make the handles at the rear of the Browning.

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The Brownings in their rough form, details to be added still:

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With my first run at their mountings (I used the drawings from Shipcraft Special: Flower Class Corvettes by John Lambert and Les Brown)…it seems the mountings are a little small for bridge wings splinter shield so I will likely build some larger ones, after seeing a photo of HMCS BATTLEFORD with the high mounts I will make some more.

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With detailing added, I think I will trim down the ends of the barrels as the Canadian versions I have seen in photos tended to be the short wide nose variant.

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So I spoke with several more veterans about RCN corvettes. Don Bellamy sailed in HMCS CHICOUTIMI (besides several other ships) and remembered CHILLIWACK having a Pom-Pom in the aft bandstand in 1942. He described some of the living conditions and confirmed some of the mine sweeping fittings for me. So it looks like I will be building a 2 Pounder after all.

Bill Hutcheson sailed in the Merchant Marine and did several trips near the end of the war, but only once did a corvette come close enough to pass a message and ask about the crew (probably to see if there were any friends or relations in the Canadian merchant). Bill has also made a model of CHILLIWACK (later long fo'c'sle version) which I hear it is quite spectacular and he says that all photos he has of CHILLIWACK have the Pom-Pom aft, but admits they are from after her fo'c'sle extension.

Peter Lynch sailed in HMCS MATANE (if anyone has any pictures of this Frigate he would be keen to see them) and sailed in concert with a few corvettes, he passed on some anecdotes of the second iteration of EG 9.

Cully Lancaster sailed in HMCS MOOSE JAW and he said that she carried two pairs of Lewis Guns in her aft bandstand. Cully was from Moose Jaw and ended up sailing in the corvette named for his home town when the assigned officer failed to make his connection and the corvette sailed with Cully taking his place…one of those “two year” temporary assignments.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:47 pm
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Another update,

Mast got some more work, first I wanted to make sure the yard arm was going to be able to stand up to the stress of halyards so I added a thin brass wire beneath it.

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I also added a light fitting to beneath the crows nest and some struts as per several photographs. The Burrard Drydock drawings did not have the crows nest as that was a later fitting.

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To keep the mast steady I have added some hard points made of brass to create eyes for the stays, here are a pair just aft of the fo'c'sle.

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Next up was the SW1C Radar, the Canadian 1.5 metre wavelength set that was rotated by the operator using a bicycle chain…that was how it was converted from a forward fixed mount to rotate 360 degrees.

I used a single piece of Evergreen Polystyrene 221 3/64” Rod. First I cut off a 50 mm length for the top of the radar aerial. Then a 36 mm length that was cut into 2 x 18 mm lengths, one end received a 60 degree cut and the other a 30 degree cut. A file was used to make a notch in each angled cut and for the end of the long remaining portion.

Then I glued the 50 mm piece at right angled to the long remaining portion at about 18 mm from one end. The two 18 mm pieces were glued with the large angle against the main trunk and the smaller angle against the 50 mm portion creating a yaga style radar.

A piece of that kit provided railing was then cut up make three equal parts of 8 mm long and these were glued together to make an “H” and this is the tail end of the SW1C.

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I used the colour photo of the WEYBURN as the best reference shot I could find, it shows the radar post going down the length of the mast, so I drilled can extra hole in my mast bracket and will use some larger hollow polystyrene tubing cut up to make the brackets to hold the SW1C post against the mast.

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Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:49 pm
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Now for an interesting story, as I have mentioned several times in the build log I have been unable to find any record or image of gun art for CHILLIWACK, every photo I have found lacks that famous RCN hallmark. The Gun Art book also is missing any mention of CHILLIWACK.

Then out of the blue I received an invite to see some new stained glass added to Vancouver Christ Church Cathedral due to my role in the navy and what was sitting in the middle of the first panel?
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Now the artist made this from a sketch and the colours are assumed based on the shading…

This is an example of a scan of a photo sent me by the North Shore Museum…notice no gun art:
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After speaking with several veterans (one navy and the other merchant marine) it seems that the gun art was lacking from CHILLIWACK and that this badge was a later addition...notice the yellow "explosion"...that really looks to be the top of the stylized Maple Leaf added to some corvette's funnels in 43 and 44 to differentiate RCN Corvettes from their RN counterparts and these were green in colour.

The forward railings were made from black thread and the rope stanchions from Great Little Ships. They proved a challenge to add due to the delicate nature of the white metal stanchions and I ended up using crazy glue to secure the thread and running it through.

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Same thing was done on the 4 Inch Bandstand, but this time I added some old mesh from a damaged screen to make the safety netting.

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Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2017 12:09 pm
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More progress, now this is the problem when you start a section without referencing the photographs. I started adding the pipe rail stanchions on the engine room casing, unfortunately I used the 3' 3 rail versions rather than the 3' 2 rail and had to remove them…sadly no stanchion survived and now I am without 3’ 3 Pipe rail stanchions. I have used 4’ 3 Pipe rail stanchions for the bridge, but for the wheelhouse I am forced to use 3’ 2 rail stanchions like those on the engine room casing, galley and boat decks.

Railings added aft on the engine room casing:
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Looking at the funnel and boat decks…as well as the galley deck and the aft rails of the bridge, both the latter will be covered in canvas dodgers (the railings from the boat deck to the engine room casing deck are still not connected so I can separate the superstructure for painting):
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From forward looking aft:
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The railings were very tricky and I ended up using a pin to make sure the holes for the wire were open enough. I used super glue to secure them and general cut only straight wire to join them (I tried a little bending for the funnel deck and a few other places). The stanchions were from “Great Little Ships” and while very accurate, they were also very delicate and unforgiving if they needed too much adjustment.

It is time for the canvas dodgers to get added to the railings for the bridge, wheelhouse and galley decks. I am not using canvas, but instead tissue paper.

Here is the first attempt for the 4’ 3 Pipe railing on the bridge.
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I realize it will stop being translucent when I paint it, but it does seem a little too thin, perhaps a second layer of tissue. What do you think?

Another small addition was the galley chimney. Here is the kit version (which was designed to run aft to the funnel to clear room for the 271 Radar Lantern that was added in late 1942 and not one I am doing) with part of it cut out.

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Now attached to the superstructure, when I join the wheelhouse section to the galley section I will add a bracket to the bridge to help stabilize the chimney.

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I also drilled holes in the chimney for appearances. ;)

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 6:10 pm
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Thank you sunfish,

RCN corvettes did not get the 27 foot whaler until much later (the 10 RCN Corvettes built to the British pattern and named for flowers never got whalers), so for this 1942 build I started previously by detailing the two provided in the kit in an earlier post, now I am back at them.

First thing I did was remove the 0.010 by 0.020 strip seated on the ribs and replaced it with a lowered 0.020 by 0.020 strip. Next I used some 0.020 by 0.080 styrene for the thwarts and some 0.010 by 0.060 for the knees.
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Here you can see the rudder detail:
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The rudder was actually made from bits of the original kits thwarts and stern (instead of cutting some from styrene I have tried to use as much of the kit as possible). The brackets are 0.010 by 0.020 styrene and the tiller bar was made from some styrene tubing.

Perhaps I will do some oars and oarlocks and perhaps a water keg and some provision boxes and these are done. In reality these would have had canvas covers at sea.

Cheers,

CB
Post Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2017 11:34 am

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