RM Renna - Corvette (flower class corvette)

tigercat · November 25, 2016, 12:19:48 AM

So my eye was caught by some photos of an Italian Mercantile conversion of the flower class .

so I'm going to do an Italian Navy based build inspired by the photos .

A WW1 or 1920s era merchant press ganged into service in WW2 cro baby with inspiration from Italy s own corvettes

Captain Canada · November 27, 2016, 05:23:24 AM

Neat idea. Any progress ?

tigercat · November 27, 2016, 08:22:18 AM

Yup ,pictures soon

it's coming along nicely

Captain Canada · November 27, 2016, 09:13:25 AM

Good stuff !

tigercat · November 27, 2016, 03:42:03 PM

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Old Wombat · November 27, 2016, 06:13:02 PM

Crikey! That was quick!

zenrat · November 28, 2016, 02:02:18 AM

He's been taking lessons from Dizz...

tigercat · November 28, 2016, 02:24:03 AM

Actually Dizz is actually from Gallifrey and he let me borrow his Tardis...

I think her name fits in well with the timescale of the build and is actually one that was planned for an uncompleted unit of the Gabbiano class corvettes.

zenrat · November 28, 2016, 02:29:03 AM

Dizz being a Time Lord could explain a lot.

Old Wombat · November 28, 2016, 06:08:24 AM

Quote from: zenrat on November 28, 2016, 02:29:03 AM
Dizz being a Time Lord could explain a lot.

Yup!

japsubshunter · January 12, 2017, 03:05:57 PM

Just love the idea of this conversion. Is there a link to the actual build if possible.

tigercat · January 19, 2017, 11:01:41 AM

Sorry I didn't take any progress pictures . But will happily answer any questions. There is a lot of Dapol railway kits on there.

Hatch cover comes from the level crossing kit.
Superstructure is signal boxes

Funnel comes from kiosks kit