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Thursday, June 06, 2013 - 11:48 AM UTC
Mirage has added the HMS "Anchusa" and "Zinnia" to complete your collection of Flower-Class Corvettes!
Mirage Hobby has uncannily covered the Flower-Class Corvettes from A-Z with this pair of releases, both in new-tooling!

1/350 HMS "Anchusa" Flower - Class Corvette (K186) - New Tooling
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The corvette with the pennant number “K 186”, was named HMS “Anchusa”.
Corvettes built in this series had an elongated foredeck, but the mast was still situated in front of
the command post. The history of the ship is interesting not only due to her long combat
operation during which she underwent two modernizations and changes of appearance, but
also her operation after the end of World War II...


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1/350 HMS "Zinnia" Flower - Class Corvette (K98) - New Tooling
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HMS Zinnia was ordered by France at Smith’s Dock shipyard in Middlesboro on 31/08/1938 and received the manufacturer’s number J4034. The construction of the ship took 7 and a half months. She was equipped with armament enabling attacks on submarines, defense against air raids and trawling minefields. In her short service, the ship conducted operations minesweeping port entrances, and saved 3 castaways from Cape Rodney sunk by U-75 on 5/08/1941.


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A bit of an optimistic statement from Mirage, I have both Kits, and whilst they hold quite a bit of promise they both represent early long fo'c'sle flowers with the mast in front of the bridge. when we get a couple of Short Fo'c'sle and a couple of late long fo'c'sle with mast aft of the bridge and hedgehog we will have good coverage. Must recommend the WEM etch, lots of extras including the the enlarged bridge and different styles of depth charge rack and light AA. Si
JUN 08, 2013 - 03:47 AM
Si, it's good to hear from you! Hopefully things are going well on your end The intro statements (non-italic) are my own, not Mirage's. It was merely a play on the names of the two ships I've had a chance to look over both kits myself and I agree with your comments overall. I think that Mirage is continuing to improve in quality and detail. They have more new small-hull ship kits in the works, so I'm hoping that they continue to improve. They're already a good value for the money, and these Corvettes are a great size in 1/350 scale. I would like to see one-piece hulls in the future, but that may be asking too much of them for the time being. These seem to me like good kits for superdetailing without breaking the bank so to speak.
JUN 08, 2013 - 07:16 AM
Hi Jeremy, All well here thanks, I hope the same with you. My apologies to mirage then, and good pun on the names. I am looking forward to get stuck to the first build, along with the WEM etch, and will post the build. Si
JUN 12, 2013 - 07:27 AM
Looking forward to it Si! Cheers
JUN 17, 2013 - 11:00 AM
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