Miniatures CSS Charleston Scratch Build

[rebelatsea]

I don't have many photos of my ACW miniatures, but here is CSS Charleston as completed, with two Davids for size comparison. Scale: 1/600

 

[Booner]

I don't have many photos of my ACW miniatures, but here is CSS Charleston as completed, with two Davids for size comparison. Scale: 1/600View attachment 328179View attachment 328180

Did you purchase them as a kit or finished model? Or did you scratch build them?
A little background info please. If they were purchased, where did you get them?

 

[rebelatsea]

Did you purchase them as a kit or finished model? Or did you scratch build them?
A little background info please. If they were purchased, where did you get them?

they are scratch built from paper card and wire, using MS paint to produce the detailing.

 

[Booner]

they are scratch built from paper card and wire, using MS paint to produce the detailing.

WOW! Outstanding! Sratch built!
Please consider doing a tutorial here on how you do this. I might never do something like this, but I'd still like to know how it's done.

 

[rebelatsea]

WOW! Outstanding! Sratch built!
Please consider doing a tutorial here on how you do this. I might never do something like this, but I'd still like to know how it's done.

next time I make one, I will take photos and describe the process.

 

[James N.]

Does anyone remember Caldwell's miniatures in Gettysburg ? I was able to get this many years ago . He made each figure individually out of Sculpey , a bakeable modelling clay .

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I have three of his figures: a standard Confederate artillery officer based on the famous painting by Shephard; an infantryman of the South Carolina Line, ca. 1776; and a not-very-good Marshal Ney I commissioned from him. (Napoleonics weren't his forte.) Chuck used to live in and work in the Dallas area and I got to know him then when he was selling to a local Militaria shop. I've visited him in his Gettysburg location, but it's no longer there, though I caught a glimpse of him there a couple of years ago. He's a WWII vet - Marines, I believe - and so is getting up in years!

 

[Blessmag]

pretty stiff breeze on those flags...lol

 

[8thFlorida]

Great size comparison with The Davids. Nicely done.

I don't have many photos of my ACW miniatures, but here is CSS Charleston as completed, with two Davids for size comparison. Scale: 1/600View attachment 328179View attachment 328180

 

[JPChurch]

What happened to Tut, the guy that was building his version of the Alabama???? He's disappeared.