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1/700 Confederate Raiders CSS Alabama, CSS Florida

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Stern rail, propeller lifting hatch, and after lasered grating in place. CSS Alabama is holding for sturdier rail material to arrive from Michigan.
SOOooooo..............!

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I started practicing with my new Hakko soldering rig. I remembered my RTV molds are hi-temp silicone, even the crappy ones I can't use. Dandy for soldering dainty bits!
 
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A few more laser details added to Alabama.
Mowing Season takes an awful lot of model building time away. After a minor collision with a lilac tree, :vmad Unrestricted pruning War was declared on low hanging branches and volunteer honeysuckle bushes on my place.
In a 3 1/2 hour engagement, cedar, oak, lilac, and honeysuckle were decimated by Milwaukee tools and a motivated Rhino with a head wound.
They iz gonna be a BIG Fahr!!
 
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Working my way forward. Just a few more laser-etched details in place.

Thanks for looking in!
 
It's War of Northern Aggression Day! I did a little repair/fill/sand/cuss on CSS Florida's hull,
I bought 3D prints of 1/700 CSS Arkansas and one of the Eads Ironclad Federal Gunboats. The only thing correct about the 3D prints were hull dimensions. I asked the Shapeways vendor to add deck planking detail but I wish I hadn't. Isaac Newton Brown's Arkansas in particular had glaring inaccuracies. My 1/600 CSS Arkansas is pretty good, but I lack the ability to continue Life without "The Terror of Vicksburg" in my favorite scale. The Federal Gunboat will be USS Carondelet, under Commander Henry A. Walke. A small (?!?) Yazoo river diorama my result, with both Annapolis classmates making their famous salutations to one another in 1862.
Step one, get shed of the cartoonish deck planking. :smack:
Step two, correct Arkansas' casemate, ladders & gun ports. :bang head
Step 3, locate and drill holes for brass tube smoke stacks. :ph:
It is good to have the juices of creativity flowing again! :yipee:

Thanks for looking in!

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