Nino, Jim, got me interested in ironclads again & even these were fun. I have built a bunch of resin ironclads & love them . I still have my Flagstaff Cairo & I have seen the real Cairo at the Vicksburg Battlefield.
I did the 2 Lindberg Monitor & Merrimac (Virginia) on pedastals & an oak base rather than the plastic sea base. I liked it but it hid the hulls on both. On the pyro Monitor I did enjoy & it made a cute model. I chose it's battle day for the smaller one & the later post battle day for the pyro kit. As sort of usual I will post some build pictures later when I find them. I am not a computer genius so bear with me.
Here are the Lindberg kits & I did a lot of extra work on it, opened the top windows, put in chain & anchors too big, & railing. I am having trouble with these pictures & will get nino to help. I will try the pyro Monitor now. I have already changed the bad davits, all 4, on the front lifeboat. Those were terrible.
There are a lot of things I would do different if I build it again, my stacks are too big, I had trouble with cutting & reversing the turret location. Short of rescribing the whole deck I chose to hide the spots with life boats as they did have them here at times. I remade the pilot house & it is too big. It does show well tho.
Here are some of my resin ironclads. The Cairo is a honey.
I wish they would make more plastic ironclad kits in about 1/200 scale. That is what these resin ones are. they were easy & lots of fun. I will be back with the Lindberg pair as quick as I can get Jim to tell me how.I relaced the 4 lifeboat davits on the bigger Oyro Monitor.