Ironclad ships of the American Civil War

http://walternelson.com/ironclads.pdf

I scratchbuilt a USS Cairo, and wrote it up for Ships in Scale, published in March/April 1988.  Back issue should be available from SiS.

Mr. David Meagher has a number of drawings and plans.  Look around and ask in the forums for his contact info.  He does not have a website, so you will have to make personal contact.   Model warships website has a complete section devoted to Ironclads.  You can look at other ship sites that also have lots of eye candy.

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Mr. David Meagher has a number of drawings and plans.  Look around and ask in the forums for his contact info.  He does not have a website, so you will have to make personal contact.   Model warships website has a complete section devoted to Ironclads.  You can look at other ship sites that also have lots of eye candy.

Meagher's plans are available from Taubmans Plan Service at Loyalhanna Dockyard

http://www.taubmansonline.com/

I used his plans to make a USS Osage of the Red River campaign.   Use the plan's line sheet (cross section and elevation)  to make a skeleton -- ribs and keel -- out of sheet styrene.   Then plank over them with more sheet stryrene.

I see a few on there, I talked to him about the Palmetto State which he sells for about $20.00.

That's ambitous. I'd have a tough enough finishing a kit myself. LOL