I live in Mill Creek, north of Seattle, Washington State- grew up in San Pedro
California-
Actually, the RCN corvettes are interesting to me because they developed them
furthur than the Royal Navy- several retained the short forecastle until the end
of the war-and there were several differences that set most of thier ships apart
from the RN ones that make them interesting to me.
They also had a key role in the Battle of the Atlantic-
Having some Canadian friends also building corvettes is a plus too

--- In Modelships@yahoogroups.com, "Ronald Wild" <wild1is@...> wrote:
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> Out of curiosity, Jim, where do you live? Sounds like you are canadian
too....Ron
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> Subject: Re: Model ships ------- Corvette
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> The Revell Flower would be an interesting subject for some conversions- Bob
Pearson's great site shows his conversion of his into HMCS Wetaskwin, a short
forecastle Canadian corvette-
> It looks like a fun project, and pretty straightforward except for bulding a
new bridge and (on most RCN corvettes) widening the stern if you decided to go
that far.
> http://www.cbrnp.com/RNP/Flower/
> If I do another Flower, I was thinking of HMCS Battleford or
Chicoutimi-(both as short forecastle corvettes) what keeps me from it is all
those photo-etched 4"shell holders around the 4" gun bandstand which I get a
headache just remembering.
> Chicoutimi was a short forecastle corvette for her entire life, I believe
Battleford was refitted into a long forecastle corvette but in the HMCS Agassiz
AOTS there are some great shots of her in heavy seas.
> There were also a few that had a postwar career in Civilian hands such as
Sudbury which became a salvage tug.
> I saw a ready to run corvette model at my local hobbyshop which was done as
HMCS Agassiz. A strange mix of an entirely Revell superstructure (Not correct
for Agassiz) but a new hull with the Canadian wide stern-
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> --- In Modelships@yahoogroups.com, Ron Hunt <arion_racing@> wrote:
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> > Another great looking Corvette! Sure makes me wished I'd have kept at
least one of mine.
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> > Ron (FoMo)
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> > --- On Thu, 4/23/09, Ron Wild <wild1is@> wrote:
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> > From: Ron Wild <wild1is@>
> > Subject: Model ships ------- Corvette
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> > Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 4:54 PM
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> > I have uploaded a new file in the photo section under the name 'Ron's
Corvette'(a Matchbox 1/72 model kit)
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