Nashville class ironclad

[kpknd]

just finished a scratch-built model of a Nashville class confederate ironclad, 1:369 scale. I think the stack is in the wrong position, but what the heck, I like it anyway.

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[Eric]

A beautiful model of a horrifically ugly ship. A side wheeler ironclad is definitely unusual, even for the Confederate Navy.

 

[kpknd]

A beautiful model of a horrifically ugly ship. A side wheeler ironclad is definitely unusual, even for the Confederate Navy.

Thanks, that's why I thought it would make an interesting model.

 

[Bryian]

Great job, especially like the weathering.

 

[Eric]

Here’s a contemporary drawing of the beast

 

[Uwek]

Congratulations for this "beast" - looking very good and great details, in this very small scale really not easy to execute

 

[Donnie]

All of these ironclads served an important part of our history. We have a museum not far from my home of the USS Cairo. Interesting of what is in the minds of the designers.

 

[kpknd]

All of these ironclads served an important part of our history. We have a museum not far from my home of the USS Cairo. Interesting of what is in the minds of the designers.

Just wached a youtube video on the Cairo a half hour ago. I'd like to have been around the designers when they where working on it.

 

[Eric]

Just wached a youtube video on the Cairo a half hour ago. I'd like to have been around the designers when they where working on it.

Eads was a innovative guy. Of course, back then, you got the thing in the water without endless interference. I always thought the US Navy’s timberclads were surprisingly useful and durable in the riverine war, being just slapped together river steamboats.