1/96 USS Kearsarge 1864. DONE!

Mike.

   So sorry about your hand problems. I had a good customer of mine twenty years ago who had that operation. I know what you're talking about.

   Hopefully you will finish your Kearsarge some day. But I totally understand your decision to do something else. This hobby is about the satisfaction we get from it. Not necessarily from being fixated on one subject or era. 

  Please keep us updated.

very lovely work .

Steve,

That's a mighty impressive finish!

I love the detail choices you made and your work is so clean!

I may or may not work on mine again this year ... just too many other things I've discovered that are taking up a lot of my time (just bitten by the N scale model RR bug) and just the day before yesterday had a small proceedure on my left hand to relieve my  middle finger of the trigger finger syndrome. Stiches out in a couple weeks but my real excuse for lack of progress has to be the tiny layout (3' x 5') I'm building for my new found hobby. and the time and $ I seem to be dumping into unsuccessful DCC installs, etc.

Anyway, job well done Steve!

Love the work you have done on her.....Cheers mark

Fine work, sir.  Very fine, indeed.

Bob

Whoo!

    That is some Damfine work, Mate! You definitely have salt in yer veins!

Very nice!

Thanks Tom. I enjoyed the research to get an accurate, backdated Kearsarge as much as  the build. 95% of this is scratchbuilt. I'm glad to have it finished.

Stunning work!  This turned out beautifully and is truly museum quality.  I hope that it has a place in your home so that it can be admired by all.  Well done!

TJS

Very nice model from that fascinating Victorian sail/steam era.

Not too many in plastic. Only others I can think of are the CSS Alabama, Scott's Discovery, Brunel's Great Western and Great Eastern and Chacot's Purquoi Pas.

I would like to see HMS Warrior or HMS Gannet in plastic. Both ships are preserved in the UK at Portsmouth and Chatham respectively.

Maybe a smaller CSS Alabama in perhaps 1/150th scale too.

Additional photos at modelshipworld.com in the gallery. Thx.

DONE!

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RacerToo

 Soon I'll be doing the dreaded rigging. Not looking forward to that.

 

 

When I rig anything more complicated than a simple sloop, I take my time.  I only rig for at most a half hour.  If there is nothing else but rigging left, I have another kit to work on after that.  I enforce that rule.  Makes it better for me, anyway.  Please do not rush the work.  I full-rigged ship should be considered a long time project.

She looks great!  Well done!

Bill

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Still post testing.

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Thanks Mike. I'm glad you're around to see it. I'd have this sucker done by now but my racing in FLA has delayed it's finish a bit. But I'm close enough to getting it done that I'm thinking of my next project. It will be something without so much scratchbuilding...I hope.

Wow,

You're way, way ahead of me in both talent and speed of your modeling! Your Kearsarge is looking fabulous!

I'll probably finish mine before the end of 2022 ... I hope.

Looking good.

The link BELOW your pictures works fine.  The one above is the one that is appended.

Bob

Something's change in my ability to post photos. This will have to do for now.

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Maybe by spring I'll have this monster done

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Thanks for your help. Something's changed. I'll figure it out eventually:) 

It's not flikr.  Your link has the "cs.finescale.com" appended to the beginning, and so it is searching this site for your photo, not Flikr.

Need to be sure to get the right link pasted.  If you click on his name (also highlighted as a link), and delete the cs.finescale.com, it will take you to his Flikr page.

Nice work BTW.

Bob