CSS Tallahassee model

[JohnW.]

That is beautiful!! Really puts my Luftwaffe stuff to shame.

 

[AndyHall]

No problem. I wasn't sure just where to post this sort of thing.

Very glad to have you here!

 

[Booner]

Very, very nice! I enjoy and appreciate all the fine detail.

 

[shipmodeler]

I guess that would be equivalent to 25mm size used for painted soldiers. Or maybe 15 mm.

Great work. I havent visited your site, so is it made out of wood or plastic? Ora mixture of cast resin& brass?

It is called a multi-media kit. That is it's made from cast resin, photo etched metal, brass and plastic rod. The finished model is about 13" long.

 

[shipmodeler]

That's a gorgeous model.

For those who may be unfamiliar, 1:192 scale is 1/16 inch to the foot -- it's small, especially for a model with that much detail. George McClellan would be, like, a quarter-inch tall.

The ideal scale for 1/192 is Z scale model railroad figures.

 

[MOBDEnut]

I cannot find any CS navy in Z scale, do you recommend any particular figure set?

 

[rebelatsea]

I cannot find any CS navy in Z scale, do you recommend any particular figure set?

I thought Z scale would equate to 1/250?

 

[shipmodeler]

I cannot find any CS navy in Z scale, do you recommend any particular figure set?

I use unpainted Z scale figures from Preizer. They make a set of 75 figures and animals perfect for 1/192 scale. You're right in that they are just a bit large for the scale, but for instance, if a figure is 5'-9" it would be closer to 6'-0" in Z scale, so they are still quite believable in size. The figures are all civilian, so some modification is necessary to militarize them.

 

[Jimklag]

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This is my model of the 1/192 scale CSS Tallahassee (about 14" long). I built this model for the box art shot for Flagship Models Inc. Unfortunately, the only models I get to build anymore are for my company. The deck is hand painted with a wash of chocolate brown to bring out the detail. Each gun is a kit in itself of 13 parts. So needless to say, lots of tiny little parts in the kit. The rest of the model is lightly weathered with the same chocolate brown wash. It's a tedious build with all the small parts, so I combined many of those tiny parts on my next rigged kit; the CSS Chattahoochee which I am building now.


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That's a helluva swivel gun.

 

[USS ALASKA]

After the ship went through some name changes and was seized by the British in Liverpool, she was turned over to American authorities on April 26, 1866. Anyone know what happened to her?

Thanks,
USS ALASKA

 

[OtselicNY]

I wanna buy the CSS Tallahassee model because it sank a schooner 30 miles off Long Island in 1864. Never knew that. I read a story in the local Long Island newspaper about a group of skin divers who found a Civil War schooner that was sunk in 1864 by the Confederate Commerce raider. I knew the CSS Alabama attacked and sank 5 ships off the East End of Long Island , I didn't know about this other Confederate ship. It's amazing having Civil War history practically in my back yard. So much history on/off Long Island, Revolutionary War ,Civil War, WW1, WW2 , Whaling communities, German spies landing on shore from a U Boat.

 

[RoadDog]

Your model is definitely a work of art.

I see that the wreck of a ship the Tallahassee sank off Long Island, the Adriatic, has been found in recent days. There is a thread about it in CivilWarTalk.

--RoadDog