"1:1200 USS Tyler " Topic

Nice model.

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Wrong color(s). She looks like she accidentally floated out of drydock before her first coat of paint was applied. By the time she floats out of the Mississippi Delta into the Gulf, she'll be a lot darker…

That's an awesome deck color, and Scott McPhee did a really nice job on highlighting, but I think the outer sides and probably other non-deck surfaces should be a lot darker, either varnished or grayed by weather. Depictions of Tyler seem to show her without black & white paint, but weather and water are hell on wood, and her sides are definitely dark and weathered in photos.

I agree it's a nice model, though. Both Langton and Thoroughbred 1/1200 ACW models are *gorgeous*. I can't stop buying more of them.

- Ix

The top photo is the USS Conestoga, she was very similar to USS Tyler but she has no upper deck guns. Note that in the photos there are two rows of white painted cabins built between the paddle boxes of Tyler and Conestoga. The pilot houses of Tyler and Conestoga were Rectangular and only the USS Lexington was built with a square square pilot house. Another identification feature of these vessels is the number of strakes on the paddle boxes, Conestoga had three, Tyler originally had two but these are not shown in the photos as she was having her paddle boxes rebuilt at this time, the Lexington had four strakes with a double space between the third and fourth. Notice how tall and thin the stacks are on these vessels, a bit of a liability if they were struck by gunfire I would think.