Turrets

[Talos]

Cutaway view of the interior of Monitor's turret, with the full complement of crew members at the time of the action with C.S.S. Virginia. It was crowded.

Crowded! Very nice model, I love it.

 

[rebelatsea]

Cutaway view of the interior of Monitor's turret, with the full complement of crew members at the time of the action with C.S.S. Virginia. It was crowded.

Imagine the effect of bolt heads flying about, or worse still, if a shot came through the gun port in close action.

 

[AndyHall]

IIRC there were heavy, padded curtains hung around the inside of the turret to help protect against flying rivet heads. Still, don't bear thinking about.

 

[bekosh]

just found this thread - is there a legend (especially concerning the different colours?

i reckon grey is steele and brown (css arkansas) is wood, but what's that third colour? i'm sure that's some sort of a standard, but i just don't know that standard.

The dark grey and light grey are metal, light grey turrets to highlight them from the hull. The very light brown is for wood decks. The reddish brown on the Arkansas is because she was supposedly rather rusty red. Either from actual rust or painted that color. The other yellow/gold color on the British & French is the Yellow Ochre or Buff color that they used for the upper works. Of course in an era of black and white photography there are about a million different arguments as to what the correct colors are.