Avery Boyer wrote:
I know the plans you have Devin, they were sent to me by a friend. I'll ask him and see if he knows how to contact Mr. Hill. It's a bit of a long shot, but we'll see...
Beautiful Roanoke JP! I am curious, what references are you using? I am currently designing a paper model of this ship, but I don't feel comfortable releasing it commercially until I have some better references. At the moment, the only references I have are some low quality images I pulled from Navsource. I'd really love some recommendations for better material. Thanks!
Hi, Avery
thanks for your words about the ROANOKE model.
Indeed it was a long research for information, plans, drawings, pics and so on...
it tooks me some years to collect nearly everything is around the world about this ship
In any case, for my model, I have used the following references, integrated in last months, also by a very nice plan set of USS Roanoke as ironclad turret, drawn from a german friend of mine (he's a very expert about Civil War vessels and Monitors..).
Not all sources are exactly about the Roanoke, but they are also about naval and military technology of such period and other Civil War vessels that I have used as base to make the Roanoke model as better as possible.
Ah..and also I got here a very kind help from other modelers
• Wikipedia.org
• US National Archives - NARS Plan N. 1-10-18 / NARS Plan n. 107-10-13A
• E. G. Parent – USS Roanoke drawings scale 1:240
• USS Roanoke plans, 1/48 scale - Taubman Plans/Loyalhanna Dockyard
• US Naval Historical Center
• La Tecnologia Militare Marittima – Volume N. 2 – by Giovanni Santi Mazzini
• Seaway’s Ships in Scale – N. 6 – Vol. 2 / N. 5 – Vol. 4 / N. 2 – Vol. 18
• Ships in Scale – N. 44 – N. 45
• Model Ship Builder – N. 40 – N. 79 – N. 82
• The World’s Worst Warship – A. Preston
• The Old Steam Navy V. 1 – Frigates, Sloops and Gunboat 1815- 1885 – D. L. Canney
• The Old Steam Navy V. 2 – The Ironclads 1842 to 1885 – D. L. Canney
• The Ironclads – An illustrated history from 1860 to 1st WW – P. Hore
• Steam, Steel & Shellfire – The steam warship 1815 to 1905
• Warrior to Dreadnought – Warship development 1860 t 1905 – D.K. Brown
• Modeling Civil War Ironclad Ships – S. Lund, W. Hathaway
• From Monitor to Missile Boat – coast defence ships since 1860 – G. Paloczi-Horvath
For Devin :
There is another source of drawings for the USS Cairo (I have started my model some years ago from this plan set) that were drawn from Admiral Franco Gay (a well known naval researcher here in Italy). But if you'll got such plan, be aware : they were drawn before the original vessel was put out the water, so there are some mistakes in such plans (as example the casemate - conning tower shape). But they're very nice plans and I think that you should have them together the other plans.
By the way.. I have also digitilized, a set of plans of USS cairo from restoration team of the Museum.. If you like, Devin, send me your mail address and I'll send you such set.
My email is :
jpshipmodel@yahoo.itHappy modeling to all you !!
Ciao from Italy
JP