After a year and a half of work (granted, off-and-on, many breaks taken) I’ve finished the USS Weehawken model. I have to say I’m damn pleased with the results. I took more time than usual with the basics this time around and paid particular attention to eliminating seams, making sure the paint was smooth, and quadruple-checking alignments. I also did a lot more scratchbuilding on this model in the form of adding an interior (that’s unfortunately very hard to see) and adding small details that are visible in this large scale.
I’ll be doing a full article on the construction of Weehawken, but that will take some time. Over the course of this project I took over 350 photos of this model, so I’ve got some sorting to do.
In the meantime, I have more photos of the completed ship here.
I am building the Weehauken kit from Old Steam Navy. I have researched as many photos of Passiac Class Monitors. They all seem to have an intake air stact with a ventilator faced aft. I am putting one on my model. Where did you find the scale cannons and sailors?
The sailors are from Cottage Industry Models. They don’t have photos of them on the website, but email them and they can let you know the deal on them. As far as cannons, the ones in the turret came with the Old Steam Navy kit, the one on the deck I built from scratch. I can send you some photos of that in-progress if you like. I documented the entire ship build process, several hundred photos, but I’ve never got around to writing an article..