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cthulhu77

October 12, 2005, 07:25:33 AM
Picked up the pair of ironclads at a yardsale, put together by a kid with a biiiig tube of glue !!!  The Monitor has been stripped and repainted, now I'm adding on the parasol top, and working on the odd little details:

cthulhu77

#1
October 12, 2005, 03:36:00 PM
I started using oiled paper for sails and dropcloths a few years ago...works wonders with some white glue and a bit of patience!
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Captain Canada

#2
October 12, 2005, 07:25:25 PM
You sure got that weathering thing down pat, eh buddy ? Wicked ! And you get 'em done so fast as well......pretty neat stuff !

I'd like to grab one or two of those kits myself.....would make nice 'shallow water' types. Maybe with a wee SHAR on top !

:wub:  
CANADA KICKS arse !!!!

Long Live the Commonwealth !!!
Vive les Canadiens !
Where's my beer ?

Keith Diamond

#3
October 12, 2005, 07:40:09 PM
Wow, nice job on a second hand kit :)   And I agree, the weathering looks outstanding.
Man, we should have cloned twenties. Jackson wouldn't have given a poo-poo.

dragon

#4
October 12, 2005, 10:32:43 PM
Are those the Lone Star kits?
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Jschmus

#5
October 13, 2005, 01:12:06 AM
The real thing!  The original Monitor!  Ooh, ooh!

Oh, sorry. :unsure:

It's just that for the last several years, every time I've seen someone post a model labeled "Monitor", it's been one of those Nebula-class monstrosities from Star Trek.  I used to love that design, but after many years, it's gotten ugly to me.

Nice work on the restoration there.
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cthulhu77

#6
October 14, 2005, 06:11:54 AM
Built a base last night...fairly happy with it all in all :

noxioux

#7
October 14, 2005, 07:37:59 AM
That's pretty cool.  Nice rescue job!

Makes me wonder if that wouldn't be a good donor kit to do one of those ironclads from Harry Turtledove's "Great War" series.

cthulhu77

#8
October 14, 2005, 09:13:34 AM
I have long thought about doing some of those great ships...but the price of ironclads is ridiculous in the modeling world...Verlinden wants something like 30 bucks for a small one, and a waterline at that !!!!!
  To do it justice, one would have to start molding and vaccing...:) (guess where all my plastic is going as of late)

Joe C-P

#9
October 15, 2005, 02:28:35 PM
If you want to start small, Thunderbird makes a line of 1/600 US Civil War ironclads. They're meant for wargaming, but it's not hard to add detail in that scale. (As long as your eyes can focus that small ) :blink:  ^_^  
In want of hobby space!  The kitchen table is never stable.  Still managing to get some building done.

AeroplaneDriver

#10
October 15, 2005, 03:48:41 PM
That thing is just gorgeous on the stand...

I figure anyone can assemble a decent model with a bit of patience and a few accumulated skills, it takes a real artist to take someone else's "big tube of glue" handiwork and turn out something like this.

:wub:  
So I got that going for me...which is nice....

cthulhu77

#11
October 15, 2005, 04:38:06 PM
Glad you all like it  !!!   Hmmm...I think I might go cross-eyed trying to build 600's...can you imagine the rigging?????? :blink:  
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