"Hulls" Topic
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| SavezRead | 11 Feb 2009 1:18 p.m. PST |
Do any of you make hulls for Thouroughbred 1/600 ironclads for display purposes. If so what do you use, Balsa wood? Styrene? |
The G Dog  | 11 Feb 2009 1:23 p.m. PST |
You mean a below the waterline hull? Nope, never had the need. |
| EJNashIII | 12 Feb 2009 11:22 a.m. PST |
balsa would probably be the way to go. However, the big problem would be deciding on a shape. Very few accurate line dwgs exist for civil war era ships. Most models are made from photos or above the waterline dwgs. Even then, it is dificult to know what many ships looked like. Below the waterline, you are generally in the realm of the wild guess. |
| vojvoda | 12 Feb 2009 12:25 p.m. PST |
There are several scale models on the market but nothing for display purposes in this scale. I would e-mail Toby directly via his website for Thoroughbred. Maybe he will see this thread. I am sure he has something in the way of images of some of the plastic kits out there.
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