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Topic review - Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)
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  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Hello Lars, I did not know "Maxim" was you.

I just updated WarshipGuy at FSM 20 min ago on those similar links using google translate. That is a fantastic build at 1/700.

Warshipguy and Gene1 are building the Revell kits now. Gene is OOB and Bill, WarshipGuy, is doing the needed corrections. We are awaiting his posts.

Thanks for the update.

So I did pick on you a bit with Bill. I indicated that the rake of the masts seemed to be missing. LOL... at 1/700 how could an 8 degree rake be seen anyway...
Thanks again.

Jim. (Nino)
Post Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 11:55 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Hi Nino,
thank you for the interest!

Unfortunately the provider, to which I had uploaded the photos, introduced costs and changed its database structure, so that the photos are lost.

They can be still found on Modellmarine.de. Here the direct links (above the one for the automatically translated texts)
USS Kearsarge
CSS Alabama

If you need help or informations: I still should have all the information and even more photos.

Cheers,
Lars
Post Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 10:59 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
maxim wrote:
Thank you!

After finishing four ships with sailing rig this year - the French 74-gun ship Marengo, the Peruvian ironclad Independencia and these two here - I prefer to built some models without sailing rig. The next models are probably the Polish light cruiser Dragon (1944), the British armoured cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth, the Australian light cruiser Sydney, the British light cruiser and Glasgow, the German armoured cruiser Scharnhorst and the German protected cruisers Nürnberg and Emden (all 1914, all already started)...

Next models with sailing rig could be USS Constitution (1812 fit), HMS Euryalus (1805 fit), some frigates based on Sané's 38-gun Hébé (including probably Austrian, British and French versions), USS Wampanoag (1867 fit, and perhaps her half-sister USS Tennessee, c. 1875 fit) or some polar research ship, e.g. Shackleton's Endurance.



I hope I am out of line but since all of the original Build images are no longer viewable, I thought I would add in the link to the German build site. This link is for the Kearsarge and is done thru Google Translate. It still has all the Build photos.

Link: https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D3900:sloop-uss-kearsarge-1700-eigenbau-von-lars-scharff%26catid%3D112&usg=ALkJrhgk-B3UbSeewQxmZGbkHrJVXI-7vw


The Link for the Alabama build is at...
Link:
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&sp=nmt4&tl=en&u=http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D3906:sloop-css-alabama-1700-eigenbau-von-lars-scharff%26catid%3D112&usg=ALkJrhjnkz6q6xXJosdHzIh7jgzEUCRa4Q

Thank You Maxim for a terrific Build of two famous ships.

Nino
Post Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2018 9:40 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Thank you for posting your beautiful work here, both ships are fine builds and I have been lurking in the shadows watching them come together, but you have inspired me to have a go at an old Australian ship. Well done on an awesome effort
Cheers Callum
Post Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 2:32 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Maxim

Quite stunning model making. Thank you for sharing the build process. The finished models are outstanding.
Post Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:39 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Today 150 years ago, on 19th of June 1864, USS Kearsarge sunk CSS Alabama and here are the promised photos of the completed models:

USS Kearsarge:
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CSS Alabama:
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Some comparisons:

Kearsarge and Alabama:
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Kearsarge and the first cruiser of the New Navy, USS Chicago (1885):
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Kearsarge and USS Fletcher (1979):
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Post Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 1:24 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Maxim

I shall look forward to seeing the British Light Cruiser Glasgow being modelled by your skilled hands. This is a particular favourite of mine and I am sure it would look great at your chosen scale (the sponsons will set it off beautifully).
Love to see more of your work.
Post Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 7:50 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Thank you!

After finishing four ships with sailing rig this year - the French 74-gun ship Marengo, the Peruvian ironclad Independencia and these two here - I prefer to built some models without sailing rig. The next models are probably the Polish light cruiser Dragon (1944), the British armoured cruisers Good Hope and Monmouth, the Australian light cruiser Sydney, the British light cruiser and Glasgow, the German armoured cruiser Scharnhorst and the German protected cruisers Nürnberg and Emden (all 1914, all already started)...

Next models with sailing rig could be USS Constitution (1812 fit), HMS Euryalus (1805 fit), some frigates based on Sané's 38-gun Hébé (including probably Austrian, British and French versions), USS Wampanoag (1867 fit, and perhaps her half-sister USS Tennessee, c. 1875 fit) or some polar research ship, e.g. Shackleton's Endurance.
Post Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 4:04 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Extremely well done! What's next CSS Florida and USS Wachusett?
Post Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 2:42 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
good work Lars!! :thumbs_up_1:


JB
Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 4:19 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Lovely looking ships, you've done some fantastic work with them.
Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 3:27 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Thank you!

I am painted them blue, because they were described that way in the article series Reconstructing USS Kearsarge, 1864 by Arthur C. Roberts. Probably also the boats of Alabama were more colourful, but the description was less detailed.
Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 10:24 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
fantastic builds! love every bit of those little gems!

I'm curious, why the lifeboats have inside area painted blue? there was a reason or it was a "fashion" thing of those days?
Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 10:08 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Thank you! I will make more photos and will show them on 19th of June - 150 years after the battle.
Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 2:41 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Very nice looking ships and weel done models :thumbs_up_1: . Will be glad to see more pics.
Post Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 12:21 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
The last things were the boats and anchors. The boats are made by Combrig, Modelkrak and probably Italeri - everything, which was available and fitting. The davits and small cranes for the anchors are PE parts by BJ-Modellbau. Alabama's anchors are from the same company, but with an added stock. Kearsarge's are Admiralty pattern anchors, this time PE parts by North Star Models with the stock replaced by a thicker plastic part to depict a wooden stock. The anchor chains are also by BJ-Modellbau.

Here Alabama:

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and Kearsarge:

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I will make better photos in time of the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Cherbourg between the two ships.
Post Posted: Tue May 13, 2014 11:33 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Thank you!
Post Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 2:03 am
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Very beautiful work! those hulls and details look amazing!
Post Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 1:58 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Nice, really, really nice work.

Regards,

Mac
Post Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 6:54 pm
  Post subject:  Re: Sloops CSS Alabama and USS Kearsarge (1/700, scratch)  Reply with quote
Beautiful rigging!
Post Posted: Wed May 07, 2014 2:46 pm

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