An unusual name for an even more unusual vessel:

[Rene]

It's called USS Spuyten Duyvil, was build in 1864 during the Civil War and is what you could call one of the earliest torpedo boats.
It was unique in having an internal magazine due to which it could reload its spar torpedo after an attack and so it was able to do it again without going back to its homeport for more and new ammo.

According to the records Spuyten Duyvil proved pretty successful in comparison to other similar designs and was used after the war for cleanup operations in which it proved very helpful indeed.

Teh model is complete scratch build in the scale of 1:72 as usual for me. The whole upper deck is made of 1mm thick lead including all the rivets which were made by using a punch and die set and then gluing every single rivet in its place , all 1700 of them!

Have fun and if there are anymore questions, just let me know





Cheers

Ren�

[D.Fratelli]

Wow!

[TI4438]

Damn thing looks real! Well done.

[Rusty White]

Looks really cool looking. I love those unusual ships. The individual rivets are what really make the model. Well done!

[Ziga]

Amazing! Weird ACW designs make great models.

[Rob]

That looks great, well done.

Cheers,

Rob

[Dan137]

Looking at the first pic, I thought it was the real thing too. Say one thing for the Union Navy, they didn't go in for "pretty" ships did they!

[Bissyboat]

Fools the naked eye with it�s realistic look. Most impressive.