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German Navy Flower Class Corvette.

Started by Jschmus, March 09, 2009, 05:31:36 AM

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I found this in Finescale Modeler's February model gallery.  It's a Kriegsmarine corvette converted from the 1/72 Revell Flower-class corvette HMCS Snowberry.


For all I know, this might really have been done, but it looks whiffy to me.

Oops!  From Wikipedia:

QuoteSix Flowers had been ordered by the French Navy and were under construction in Saint-Nazaire at the time of the Fall of France. They were seized by Nazi Germany and four were completed for service in the Kriegsmarine. They were launched in 1943-1944 under the names PA-1 through PA-4.

Their logs have all been lost, however it is thought their war careers consisted of a mixture of coastal patrol and escort with at least one specially adapted as a sea-mobile heavy anti-aircraft platform. PA-4 (formerly FFL Poignard) was sunk as a blockship and the other three were put out of action or sunk by Allied air attacks.

Still, it is a neat model.
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A very nice conversion and a interseting use of a Flower class ship.  ;D
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