Been busy with life's solutions also sadly had two family members pass away during last month. When it rains it pours! But have been able to work on the Arkansas some and almost have all the interior pieces placed, will have to do a little touch up painting inside the case-mate and will be ready for adding life boats and exterior parts later this week. The lighting kit for her had failed in placement because of space constraint's and fiber breaking as I did tight bends to hid it..oh well.
The case-mate roof will be able to be removed completely to show the interior work and detail along with a white base board with brass mounting hardware for the ships mount will be added too. . The davits and anchors along with the propellers with drive shafts will also be added. I might have the completed model done by next month and apologize for not updating the build.
The custom glass case will be the finishing touch along with the engraved name plate. Then the CSS Alabama along with a couple of small CSS model ships will be started next and will have build blogs for each one. The interior placement work was extremely complicated and tight working space's, very time consuming. As you can see from the images this ship was packed..amazing that she had two hundred plus men aboard!
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