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! 

Don Stauffer

Here it is.

12" scale is 1:144.

 

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..