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| Charles |
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  Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 776 | USS Cairo 1862 kit BlueJacket kit K1111 1/16 '' at feet 1: 192 When we think about the American Civil War, think about the great land battle Gettysburg, Chickamauga, Spotsylvania, Bull Run, Shiloh and so much else, but have forgotten the 51 naval battles important for the control of the waterways. The USS Cairo is one of his fighters who are + - forget. During the North American conflicts the waterways were of incomparable strategic importance to transport troops and supplies. During the 1812 - 1814 conflict between Canada and the Americans if the Canadians had not had control of the St. Lawrence River and the Richelieu River, things might have been different. In Kingston in 1814 a 3 deck 112-gun HMS St-Laurence (the only 3 deck to have navigate in fresh water) was built that gave total control of Lake Ontario to the Canadian. A similar vessel was planned for Lake Erie to regain control of the lake that the British lost in 1813. The ground conditions for the Civil War were the same, the one that controlled the rivers controlled supply. It was with the research done during the construction of my Arrow 1814 (Burrow) that I realized the unknown importance that ships navigating in freshwater had during those 2 conflicts. The model of the USS Cairo will be the 3rd ship of my series on the Ironclad and it seems that only BlueJacket produced a model Vessel Length 53m width 16.60m Draft 1.8m 4 knot speed Crew 251 Armament 3x 8lb 3x 42lb 6x 32lb 1x 30lb 1x 12lb 7 identical ships were built in 1862 USS Cairo, USS Carondelet, USS Cincinnati, USS Louisville, USS Mound City, USS Pittsburg and USS St. Louis. All were given city names from where their class classification of Ironclad City Class originally had US Navy equipment but was under the control of the Army which explains their USS appointment and not USN Cairo sinks following the explosion of a mine December 1862 The wreck was partially recover in 1965 and is now exhibiting at Vicksburg National Park. A beautiful model was made by Gene Bodnar at 1:48 on commission if you are interested here is the link that I will regularly consulted. http://www.modelshipbuilder.com/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?5406.0 The kit that is the same scale as my 2 previous (USS Monitor and CSS Virginia) is 1/192 By cons it is a kit that received a beautiful facelift 2016-2017 And at first glance seems excellent The kit includes a solid form of lime tree whose finish looks excellent in 2 pieces of laser cuts a PE sheet, styrene stem, white metal piece and wooden stick. An instruction booklet (much better than the previous 2) and a descriptive plan that is very good.          | ||
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| Tim C |
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  Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1105 | Wow, looks like a good kit and it's going to be an interesting build. Enjoy. Later Tim | ||
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| Charles |
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| Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 776 | Tanks Tim it will be fun I think But will see  | ||
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| Charles |
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| Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 776 | The hull and casemate come in 2 pieces that are laser cut. The bottom piece requires a sanding to round the back and corrected an imperfection beside that it is perfect 1 There are 2 pre-engraved plates for the bridges the first mounts under the pillbox and does not require any adjustment and they are very good with fine engraving 2 By against the second one that arises on the casemate to give me a little problem The angles of the matte box are not correct at the bow and stern and I must make a 3-4 and 5 correction for the prou and 6 when corrected for the stern       | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1105 | Enjoy the build, myself I'm working on a fuse bucket. Later Tim | ||
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| Charles |
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| Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 776 | Fuse Bucket Tim ??? | ||
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| Charles |
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| Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 776 | Small advance After laying the bridge of the casemate (1) poses of the PE  Problem at the beginning that of the stern is not correct and required a big correction 2 and 3   Part of the casemate has no PE and there is nothing in the instructions to make a pattern so I decided to simulate the wood curling 4, 5 and 5a    The other photos cut for the side of the casemate have landed accurately without problem 6 and 7   Here is the casemate is ready to receive details 8 and 9   | ||
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| Tim C |
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| Registered Member #4126 Joined: Fri Feb 15 2013, 05:19amPosts: 1105 | Interesting mating of materials. Thanks for the pics share. My fuse bucket is from an old Battle Station project. I'm working on it off and on. Long story. Later Tim | ||
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| jacknastyface2 |
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 Registered Member #5239 Joined: Sat Apr 21 2018, 05:29pmPosts: 418 | Every time I see the sloping sides of Cairo I wonder if the designers sloped them that way because they figured enemy shells/balls would have difficulty penetrating----thinks--- WW2 Russian T34 tank turret. If so they were before their time. Keith. | ||
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| Charles |
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| Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 776 | Keith recently I have start again to do WWII tanks (20y not doing plastic kit) and thing did have change now we have Youtube and a lots of information now available on the net. Sloping was studied by the Chinese in the 13 century Vauban French fortification genius was using sloping in is fortress design Russian did not invent sloping for their tank the T34 was not the first. The T34 just did have slope also on the side but doing so reduce the space inside the tank = crew space to operate the tank was reduce = lest efficacy. So was not really adopts by the allied or the German. I just finish the Somua S35 and he did have sloping or look at the British Crusader tanks sloping turret. It is a mathematical formula (do not ask me) something like 1’’ thick plate at some angel double the effect, so sloping = less thickness for the same effect. A fellow modeller on a French forum found this for me http://www.flagshipmodels.com/zencart/ Nice collection of Cession ship same scale as BlueJacket look at the CSS Atlanta I might do it if I have enough place inside my existing casing or the CSS Hunley | ||
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