Sunday 23 August 2020

1/2400th Ironclad Scratchbuild - CSS Arkansas







I'm getting the hang of this scratch building malarkey. Here's what I knocked together this afternoon as a 'big boss' for my Messing About on the River solo campaign. I chose the CSS Arkansas as she was the archetypal Confederate casemate ironclad ram hidden up a tributary of the Yazoo, which ties in very nicely with the campaign. I also had a spare base almost exactly the right size for the job. I think I need to find a way to model the gun ports more subtly but otherwise I'm quite pleased with the end result. This is almost the last of the scratch built models for the moment, so I'll be moving onto the painting next and some modular river terrain construction.

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  1. Very impressive Jim.

    Cheers,

    Pete.

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    1. Thanks Pete,

      It doesn't half mess up your eyesight though!

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  2. Nice scratchbuilding on this and the previous ships.

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    1. Thanks Trev,

      I think I'm getting better at it as I go along...with one or two screw ups along the way!

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