More color photographs taken by Robert Capa. Visible in these are details of the ship’s boats and a variety of light gun positions which were hastily fitted to the merchantmen to give them a minimal self-defense capability. The aircraft carried as deck cargo are Douglas A-20 Havocs, known as the Boston in British service. They […]
Atlantic Convoy Color Photographs Part II
This is the well-known Flower-class Corvette kit first released by Matchbox in 1979, and re-boxed here by Revell. This example was from the basic molds, not one of the enhanced or upgraded kits. The kit is very crude by today’s standards both in molding quality and accuracy of many of the details. This was built […]
Revell HMCS Snowberry Flower Class Corvette in 1/72 Scale
These color photographs were taken by famed photographer Robert Capa. Capa is best known for his work during the Spanish Civil War and action shots of Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings. Most of his work was in black and white and he was known for not always sending along captions with his photographs. He […]
Atlantic Convoy Color Photographs Part I
Final post
This is the well-known Flower-class Corvette kit first released by Matchbox in 1979, and re-boxed here by Revell. This example was from the basic molds, not one of the enhanced or upgraded kits. The kit is very crude by today’s standards both in molding quality and accuracy of many of the details. This was built for a friend who wanted to use it for wargaming with the intention of an out of the box build, but I couldn’t resist improving several of the parts.
Of course, the Kaiju attack is inevitable when one has children!
Construction posts begin here: https://inchhighguy.wordpress.com/2021/12/24/revell-hmcs-snowberry-flower-class-corvette-build-in-1-72-scale-part-i/
Remembering HMCS Regina K-234 