Warship Models Underway Message Board 2.2.3 - 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France

SeaPhoto YaBB Administrator Offline Kurt Posts: 718 CA	1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France 10/16/8 at 17:19:59 Alain Teneze sent in these photos of his 1/48 scale USS Monitor, built from scratch. As you can see, Alain is casting his own armor plates for the structure to reduce the amount of tedious, repetitive work - good idea!
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todd Full Member Offline what the *##@% over Posts: 42 raleigh-durham N.C.	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #1 - 10/17/8 at 03:52:31 one day I plan to do a passaic class monitor in 1/48th with the spanish american war retofit, still worried about building something that is close to being sunk when correctly ballasted... the cast plates look great...
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Reid Full Member Offline Cmdr. Reid 48th Fleet Posts: 191	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #2 - 10/19/8 at 08:49:11 WHAT IS AWESOME!! it looks great! 1/48 monitor is definitely on my today list... one day
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SeaPhoto YaBB Administrator Offline Kurt Posts: 718 CA	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #3 - 10/29/8 at 13:42:49 Alain has sent in a few more photos of the turret, traverse mechanism, and the Dahlgreen gun: Kurt
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Reid Full Member Offline Cmdr. Reid 48th Fleet Posts: 191	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #4 - 10/29/8 at 15:12:28 it just keeps getting better and better!! very cool!!
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SeaPhoto YaBB Administrator Offline Kurt Posts: 718 CA	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #5 - 01/31/9 at 19:51:30 A few more photos from Alain:
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Reid Full Member Offline Cmdr. Reid 48th Fleet Posts: 191	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #6 - 02/02/9 at 15:20:08 that looks great! very nice job Alain!
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SeaPhoto YaBB Administrator Offline Kurt Posts: 718 CA	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #7 - 02/23/9 at 17:18:24 Another update from Alain, he has finished one of the Dahlgreen guns and painted the upperworks with Tamiya TS-38 gun metal paint The progress is inspected by Alain's cat, Bouboule Kurt
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Reid Full Member Offline Cmdr. Reid 48th Fleet Posts: 191	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #8 - 03/03/9 at 18:55:20 that is amazing... what a great job!!
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Jerry Todd New Member Offline Warship Modeler Posts: 1	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #9 - 03/04/9 at 11:56:14 Beautiful work!
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Josephp13 Full Member Offline That goes there. Posts: 134	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #10 - 04/12/9 at 16:12:17 The Monitor looks amazing what a true scale model…I have only one question. Why would anyone do a model of a 1/48 cat?
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SteamBoy Full Member Offline Even Nukes are steam powered! Posts: 22	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #11 - 04/13/9 at 05:22:02 Josephp13 wrote on 04/12/9 at 16:12:17: I have only one question. Why would anyone do a model of a 1/48 cat? 1/48 the cat hair floating around the house as it sheds?
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SeaPhoto YaBB Administrator Offline Kurt Posts: 718 CA	1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France - complete! Reply #12 - 04/21/9 at 21:49:15 Thank you Alain for sharing your work with us! Kurt
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admiralbb62 Full Member Offline CNC superstructures and more Posts: 771 VA(WashingtonDC area)	Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France Reply #13 - 04/22/9 at 03:21:25 C'est Magnifique!
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Re: 1/48 Scale USS Monitor from France
Reply #14 - 04/24/9 at 04:35:42

Beautiful work, but I have a couple observations.

First, I believe the turret roof should be made of closely space iron bars, not planked wood. The bars provided protection from plunging shot while letting light and air in and powder smoke out. An awning was fitted over the turret to provide protection from extreme sunlight and rain.

Second, the deck bolt heads should be ground down flat to the deck. This is validated by no visible protruding boltheads in any contemporary photos of the deck.

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