I'm building HMS Heather from the Revell Flower Class kit. I chose this ship because it's pennant number was K69 which is easy to do from the kit decals and it was built at Harland & Wolfe in Belfast, where one of my great uncles worked for many years.
The model has been converted to RC and I've used Sirmar guns, stanchions and bridge set. I have also got more stanchions, Lewis guns and depth charge set from GLS. I've scratch built a door for the radar shack, the wheelhouse, new cable drums, skylight and pompom bandstand. Painting has been done with White Ensign and Humbrol paints.
The foredeck from the breakwater is fixed to the rear deckhouse and is removable to access the hull for battery changing etc. This structure is held in place using thin magnetic rubber sheet stuck to the under sides, with steel paper stuck to the marine ply under deck and on the combing around the aperture in the rear deck. These products are sold for basic wargame models so they can be transported in metal boxes. Link to the supplier -
http://www.magneticdisplays.co.uk/default.aspWith hindsight I would have fitted the rear deckhouse sides to the deck and just made the roof lift off.
The other innovative construction method is the way I made the planked areas. After removing the moulded planking, the planked areas were simulated with 0.5mm plasticard pieces. The planking was made using my desktop publishing software. This software has a facility to draw rectangles and fill them with ".bmp" pictures. One of the fills supplied with the software is planked wood. A large rectangle was made and filled with this picture. This was reduced to scale size and copied many times to build up a planked area larger than required. This was then cropped to shape. Extra planks were made and the colour darkened to make the edging planks. When finished they were printed on white inkjet waterslide transfer film. Link to the supplier -
http://www.craftycomputerpaper.co.uk/default.aspPhotos of the build so far are in the link below -
http://aol.pixum.co.uk/viewalbum/id/4878997