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Out of our comfort zones
Posted by bbrowniii on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:43 PM

Alrighty sports fans, I've got a GB proposal that is likely to take all of us out of our comfort zones (and is likely to be confounded by lack of kits, but that is a seperate issu).

April 12 - 13 2011 marks the 150th anniversary of the shelling of Fort Sumter and the 'official' start to the American Civil War.  Anyone interested in a Civil War GB?  I'm thinking it would end up being mostly figures and maybe some arty pieces, or perhaps a Monitor or two....

Lemme know what ya think...

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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Posted by MrSquid2U on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 10:42 PM

Great topic! Pitfalls as you noted but a thing or two already come to mind.Wink

       

 

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Posted by Aaronw on Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:45 AM

Already 150 years? How time flies.

Lots of interesting things to build, but not sure how much is actually available in kit form.

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Saturday, January 22, 2011 2:26 AM

Interesting, but a bit too far out of mine, Brownie...  I'm strictly a 20th Century military modeler...

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Posted by bbrowniii on Saturday, January 22, 2011 7:15 AM

Hans von Hammer

Interesting, but a bit too far out of mine, Brownie...  I'm strictly a 20th Century military modeler...

Yeah, I figured a lot of folks would feel that way. Still, it's worth a shot.

'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing' - Edmund Burke (1770 ??)

 

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Posted by Pavlvs on Monday, March 28, 2011 11:43 PM

Model Expo has a lot of ships and even better, they have kits of cannon and a limber in 1/16th scale.  They are even on sale now.  There are the Revell kits of the Alabama and the Kearsarge.  There are kits of the Monitor and the Virginia made by somebody, I'm not sure who.  There is a line of civil war ships for gaming that make up into nice models if you put only a little extra effort into them.  I have the Parrott rifle and the limber that I've started.  If it's okay, I would like to enter them.Cowboy

Deus in minutiae est. Fr. Pavlvs

On the Bench: 1:200 Titanic; 1:16 CSA Parrott rifle and Limber

On Deck: 1/200 Arizona.

Recently Completed: 1/72 Gato (as USS Silversides)

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