Flower Class Corvette
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29 November 2015, 21:07
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It's gonna take a lot of popcorn. I travel during the week. Looking forward to making some noticeable progress over the Christmas time frame. It's also going to take a lot of patience. All of the JDParkins kits add thousands of parts. It will require dusting off or acquiring new skills - soldering for one. This will give me a chance to get good at it. Thinking about getting a resistance soldering system to handle smaller pieces, etc.
30 November 2015, 01:25
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The Matchbox Flower was THE kit that I dreamed to build when I was young. I will probably never even get it now but I like to see how others build theirs. As for soldering, have you given any thought on trying soldering paste (complete with soft solder and flux) that you just spread out in place and then add heat with a blowtorch lighter or a Dremel gas operated soldering pen without even touching the PE.
30 November 2015, 15:05
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Count me in, one of my favorite class of ships. Mmhhh, reminds me to go back and finish my scale 1/350 Flower and Revell will release a scale 144 next month!
30 November 2015, 17:52
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Did some more work over the holidays. A lot of studying and found some great reference sites. Got more of the keel taken off. Got some brass tubing and brass rod to use for the propeller. Found a great reference site for soldering models paulbudzik.com/tools-techniques/index.html. Got rid of the very thick stem and added a strip of .020 by .040 styrene strip to simulate the steel stem of the corvettes. That's looking a lot better. Will start soldering soon once I get hull in better shape. Will post some more pictures when I have a little more to show.
5 January 2016, 05:22
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You will need a long breath for that one (did it myself).
I will watch it 🙂
5 January 2016, 14:11
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Well Lukasz, it is listed as new since 2015. First announcement was for October 2015, than they changed it to January 2016 and now I noticed they changed it again to March 2016. I guess we'll have to wait for untill the Toy Fair in Nuremberg at the end of February 2016.
@Mac, looking forward to your progress🙂
5 January 2016, 19:28
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Had some fun soldering tonight. Assembled the 'floor' of one of the Carley floats and an oar. Having a lot of fun learning how to solder. Added some pics to the album.
16 January 2016, 06:06
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Looks promising. Curios how the floats will look once finished.
17 January 2016, 13:10
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I'll keep you posted. I am going to try to mimic the canvas wrap finish (will try a couple of things, including fine cloth strips or tissue to give the surface a little texture. The kit comes with one size of thread. In looking at some of the images It looks like there were different sizes of rope used, with a lot of variance. I will be making 4 floats for the Bluebell, but I also have a couple of square Carley Float kits I may practice on.
17 January 2016, 21:25
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Added a few more pics. Been practicing soldering on parts that I won't be using. I'm decided to build Bluebell, so won't need some of the Carly float stands. I started working on those stands to practice soldering. Got the top part done. Next is the bottom of the stand. Then seal and paint to see how it looks. Also soldered the brass shaft onto the propeller. Took a couple tries to get it balanced. Then just a couple of picks to see what it is starting to look like. I am about confident enough to be able to solder the thin side strips onto the deck. Will be a little tricky.
28 January 2016, 03:46
Album info
Build of the original Matchbox version of this kit, using all of the J.D Parkins GLS photoetch. Had started the build several years ago, with hull, propeller, and bracing. Several moves, damage, including snapped off propeller and rudder. Restarting the project. Acquired "The Flower Class Corvette Aggasiz recently. Following D.J. Parkins comments about removing the keel, sanding off the eyebrows over the portals and replacing them with PE. Replacing the broken propeller and rudder with GLS Resin and metal parts. Fun to be working on this again.