Saturday, May 11, 2013

the sky is as gray as iron today...


Which made me think that I should charge up the camera battery and snap some pictures of ironclads. In the 1980s I devoured everything I could find about American Civil War ironclads and started scratch building my own 1/600 scale models. I even tracked down and purchased my own set of the Official Records, Series 1 and Series 2.
Eventually, I evolved a set of rules (Iron & Steam). Not too many years into the decade, Toby Barrett began producing his beautiful Thoroughbred Models and it seemed like every time I spent months scratch building, within a year he'd put out a much superior model than mine! I succumbed.  What follows is a compendium of my ACW ship collection--minus 4 or 5 which are considerably worse for wear over the course of the last several moves.

[&#*&!! Just as I was finishing up the pictures I knocked a box off the desk. Six more of the ships are considerably worse for wear now. Oh, bother!]

USS Sassacus - - Thoroughbred Models TS08

USS Paul Jones - Thoroughbred Models TS09

CSS Alabama - - Thoroughbred Models TS54

USS Hartford - Thoroughbred Models TS36

Union Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS33


USS Queen City - Scratch Built

USS Indianola - Scratch Built
CSS Virginia II - Scratch Built

USS Commodore Morris - Scratch Built

USS Commodore Barney - Scratch Built

USS Commodore Perry - Scratch Built

USS Itasca - Scratch Built

CSS Baltic - Scratch Built

CSS Richmond - Scratch Built

CSS Fredericksburg - Scratch Built

CSS Neuse - Scratch Built

Tugs & Barges - Thoroughbred Models TS20

Confederate Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS29

CSS Richmond - Thoroughbred Models TS14

CSS Albemarle - Thoroughbred Models TS03

Ellet Ram - Thoroughbred Models TS21

CSS Arkansas - Thoroughbred Models TS04

CSS Tennessee - Thoroughbred Models TS28


USS Signal - Peter Pig PP8

CSS General Sumter - Peter Pig PP15

CSS Atlanta - Thoroughbred Models TS12


CSS Virginia - Thoroughbred Models TS01

A.D Vance, Blockade Runner - Peter Pig PP20

Union Tinclad - Thoroughbred Models TS23

Union Tinclad - Thoroughbred Models TS23
Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13

Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13

Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13

Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13


USS Cairo (City Class) - Thoroughbred Models TS05

USS Cincinnatti (City Class) - Thoroughbred Models TS05

USS Weehawken - Thoroughbred Models TS06

USS Passaic - Thoroughbred Models TS06

USS Canonicus - Thoroughbred Models TS07

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USS Onondaga - Thoroughbred Models TS10

USS Monitor - Thoroughbred Models TS02

USS New Ironsides - Thoroughbred Models TS35
CSS Stonewall - - Thoroughbred Models TS43

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