1/96 USS Kearsarge 1864. DONE!

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

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.

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

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.

Very nice!

Whoo!

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

Fine work, sir.  Very fine, indeed.

Bob

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

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!

very lovely work .

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.