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!]
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| USS Sassacus - - Thoroughbred Models TS08 |
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| USS Paul Jones - Thoroughbred Models TS09 |
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| CSS Alabama - - Thoroughbred Models TS54 |
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| USS Hartford - Thoroughbred Models TS36 |
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| Union Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS33 |
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| USS Queen City - Scratch Built |
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| USS Indianola - Scratch Built |
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| CSS Virginia II - Scratch Built |
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| USS Commodore Morris - Scratch Built |
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| USS Commodore Barney - Scratch Built |
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| USS Commodore Perry - Scratch Built |
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| USS Itasca - Scratch Built |
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| CSS Baltic - Scratch Built |
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| CSS Richmond - Scratch Built |
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| CSS Fredericksburg - Scratch Built |
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| CSS Neuse - Scratch Built |
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| Tugs & Barges - Thoroughbred Models TS20 |
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| Confederate Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS29 |
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| CSS Richmond - Thoroughbred Models TS14 |
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| CSS Albemarle - Thoroughbred Models TS03 |
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| Ellet Ram - Thoroughbred Models TS21 |
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| CSS Arkansas - Thoroughbred Models TS04 |
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| CSS Tennessee - Thoroughbred Models TS28 |
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| USS Signal - Peter Pig PP8 |
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| CSS General Sumter - Peter Pig PP15 |
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| CSS Atlanta - Thoroughbred Models TS12 |
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| CSS Virginia - Thoroughbred Models TS01 |
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| A.D Vance, Blockade Runner - Peter Pig PP20 |
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| Union Tinclad - Thoroughbred Models TS23 |
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| Union Tinclad - Thoroughbred Models TS23 |
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| Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13 |
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| Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13 |
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| Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13 |
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| Cotton Clad Gunboat - Thoroughbred Models TS13 |
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| USS Cairo (City Class) - Thoroughbred Models TS05 |
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| USS Cincinnatti (City Class) - Thoroughbred Models TS05 |
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| USS Weehawken - Thoroughbred Models TS06 |
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| USS Passaic - Thoroughbred Models TS06 |
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| USS Canonicus - Thoroughbred Models TS07 |
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| USS Onondaga - Thoroughbred Models TS10 |
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| USS Monitor - Thoroughbred Models TS02 |
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| USS New Ironsides - Thoroughbred Models TS35 |
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| CSS Stonewall - - Thoroughbred Models TS43 |
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