1/700 Confederate Raiders CSS Alabama, CSS Florida

[Rhino]

USRC Louisiana is not a "Cutter Rig" sail plan. This is what I hoped to make for Caleb Cushing. I errored when I called this a Cutter rig.

Some touch-up and fine tuning is left to do. The PEE ratlines were much finer than I had used before and I installed them badly. Too much slack when viewed from bow or stern. After the flags and a little more rigging are added, this model of the Cushing should be dandy for the Confederate Raider box art. Maybe I should finish the Masters on the other 2 Confederate ships in this kit?

 

[Rhino]

I looked over the 1/700 scale Master for CSS Florida. She's been ready to mold for sometime. CSS Alabama still needs a few more details. 14 winders for her stern. After putting 60 individual P/E windows on the Fire Canoe Master, everything else should be a snap!

I had planned to mold Both Civil War raiders together in one big, complex box. I find more modest molds handier to tool, cast and clear. The extra material consumed in making separate, smaller RTV molds seems inconsequential after the base project for the newest "Diorama in a Box" kit. That one was a doozie!

Thanks all y'all for havin' a look-see.

 

[moon puppy]

She looks great.

 

[Rhino]

Scale Naval obscurities seem to be my forte'. I imagine the Oreto would have looked very much like this before her commission into the Confederate Navy and installation of 9 cannon. Oreto/CSS Florida is missing her 4 coaling scuttles, but not much else.
Pivot guns are ready. The rifled 6 and 7-pounders in the kit will be represented by 3d printed 9 pound guns. They should look the part.