Calling all American Civil War Ironclad fans

[JoeP]

I don't see any mention in this thread or in a search, so I'm noting that Brown Water Navy on Shapeways has a broad range of small scale ironclads:

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/mglawson?li=pb

I haven't ordered any yet, so I don't know how they come, or how the compare to Thoroughbred. I've built the Passaic from the latter, adding details to take it from wargaming to a proper little representative.

JoeP

[Devin]

JoeP,

I've read about the Brown Water Navy ironclads, but haven't purchased any of them. I do like the Thoroughbred ships, though. I have photos of their USS Monitor and USS Essex that I built, adding detail as you did, on my website: http://www.devinjpoore.com/models.html

-Devin

[Timmy C]

An interesting article from USNI's Naval History Magazine that argues Monitor had a short-lived boxy armoured shield attached to the area around its gunports during the engagement at Hampton Roads: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-hi ... k-old-icon

Suggests the artifact on display at the Naval Academy is actually this temporary shield, and numerous contemporary written sources refer to this shield.

[Devin]

Sean Hert pointed me to that article yesterday. Very interesting. It's nothing I've heard of before, but that doesn't mean anything. I have the catalog book of drawings mentioned in the article, and I likely can have access to the original drawing in the Steven's Institute collection, so I'm going to have to look into this further. Always amazing how new information can be turned up over a century and a half later.

[Chris@Sea n' Sky]

Gentlemen,

Yazoo river dog-fight duo 1

I give you CSS Arkansas and USS Carondelet in glorious 1/700 scale. These are posed on a printed pdf. of the actual Yazoo river,
depicted just after Arkansas' Captain Isaac Brown had bested classmate Henry Walke's command, that sultry summer day in 1862. This can be emailed to interested buyers and printed on glossy photo paper to add interest and authenticity.
I build every kit I make, so I do my best to include things that make the models more fun and/or easier to build.

https://tlarmodels.com/ols/products/tla ... carondelet

Now, there is a Hungarian (?) company that makes an incredible 1/700 Eads Federal Navy ironclad model kit. Their detail exceeds my own American efforts as do their shipping costs. There is also Chinese-made 1/700 scale version of CSS Arkansas that could not be more inaccurate, but as always you get to make up your own mind.