Monday 16 March 2020

US Ironclad Monitors Finished








It's taken me far longer than I expected but I have now finished the assorted 1/2400th scale monitors for my North Atlantic Squadron c1870. They turned out fine in the end but they're not particularly spectacular being a rather boring shade of overall dark grey and black, with only the white details to relieve the monotony. Anyway, I added some ensigns to give them a splash of colour and the labels lift them a little bit too. I also finished the 'abandon ship' lifeboats that I will use as Shattered counters while I work out something more inspiring in the way of wreckage markers. I have a couple more ships to add to the USN collection including the paddle frigate USS Powhatan and a very useful steam tug, USS Hetzel, but I'm now running out of storage space in my plastic box!

4 comments:

  1. Jim, you need to buy another box! And then fill it with more ships. Nice monitors.

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  2. Thanks Peter..I may well have to do that!

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  3. Another cracking header image for the blog - I've got a box of really nice postcards similar to this covering WW1 to the 1990s - interested?

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