cigar63:
Is Combat Models still in business? Has anyone ever built or seen the 1/72 scale vacuform kits of
USS Monitor
CSS Manassas
CSS Virginia
Can't speak specifically to those subjects, but Combat Model's ship subjects have the reputation of being little more than vacuformed shapes that bear only a passing resemblence to the intended subject. Be prepared to invest heavily in additional resources and styrene stock necessary to reinforce, replace, and scratchbuild details missing from the kits.
As Sy Symms, the suit salesman, said, "An educated consumer knows the value of a brand name"