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Home › Forums › Air and Sea › Naval › Scratchbuilt USS Onondaga monitor in 1/2400th
Here’s my effort at scratch building the twin turret monitor ex-USS Onondaga for my 1860’s-70’s French ironclad fleet (there’s a how I went about it on the blog:
http://jimswargamesworkbench.blogspot.com/2018/08/12400th-scratchbuild-uss-onondaga.html
More about the Onondaga here:
http://civilwarwiki.net/wiki/USS_Onondaga
http://navalwarfare.blogspot.com/2007/09/uss-onondaga.html
You did a great job, I scratch built 1/2400 ships back in the 1980’s mostly WW1 and WW2.
Damn fine results Jim – very impressive piece of work there
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Lovely! What I’m wondering though, is how on earth did they get her from the US to France?
I think she went under her own steam, believe it or not?
Thanks for the positive feedback.
I’ll try to scratch build something else soon.
I’m surprised she had the range, though I suppose they could have sent a tender with her. But more than that, the North Atlantic, with that freeboard? Very brave.
In suspect she was towed at least some of the way.
Darn fine looking! You did a great job there sir.
I think she went under her own steam, believe it or not?
I’m surprised she had the range, though I suppose they could have sent a tender with her. But more than that, the North Atlantic, with that freeboard? Very brave.
Brave isn’t the word I would have used at all! Talk about a scary proposition.
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Didn’t the US also sell the large casement ironclad Dunderburg to France who renamed her Rochambeau (or something like that)? As I recall, it was a bit of a swindle as she was built from improperly seasoned timber and did not hold up well.
The tree of Life is self pruning.
Yes they did and she lasted until 1872 (?) then was scrapped. Very impressive though!
Wow! Really nice job there! I’m anxious to see more.
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