Scratch built ironclads

Which one is it? Looks like one of the Confederate ones.

A number of years ago I scratch built the USS Cairo and got a cover picture in the old Ships in Scale/

Cool Don!Post a pic if you will!CSS Virginia…clad the sude in over 70 individual pieces of strip styrene…very time consuming!

That’s the same thing I did on the Cairo, styrene strips over sawn wood casemate shape. That was in the days before I had my digital camera, so no pics in the computer. I’ll try to scan that cover.

Thanks Don!would like to see it!

Here it is.

12" scale is 1:144.

Excellent!stern wheeler too!

Philo;

There are many you can do this way. The ugliest one if you ever find a picture of her is the C.S.S.Arkansas

I guess function was more important than form in that case!

Wow, I remember that issue. Wish I still had it.

Flat black…

Used real woid to deck it up.

Decided to use brass stanchions and .016 B guitar string…

Tied the stack down…