CSS "Wilmington" - American Confederate river ironclad

CSS "Wilmington" was the last of three battleships, built at Wilmington, North Carolina, during the Civil War. The first - CSS "North Carolina" - was used on the brackish Cape Fear River as a floating battery and sank? while moored in September 1864 from damage to her plating by woodworms. A second battleship - CSS "Raleigh" - was completed in the spring of 1861 and sent to attack the Federal Fleet, running a blockade off Fisher Island. On her return upriver, CSS "Raleigh" run around and broke her keel. Building of a new battleship began shortly after "Raleigh's" demise, in spring of 1864 at the "Berry Brothers" shipyard on Eagle Island. The designer of the "Wilmington", John L. Porter, aimed primarily for the minimum draught and maximum speed of the ship. The large length-to-width ratio and the placement of guns in small octagonal casemates made CSS "Wilmington" a very innovative ship. Although? the Confederacy lacked the resources to build the rotating turret? found on Federal monitors. Porter's design was a serious attempt to replicate their advantages: circular firing of several heavy guns and presenting enemy gunners with a relatively small target. CSS "Wilmington" was never engaged in combat or commissioned. It was burned by Union troops, captured Wilmington on February 1865.

A small, simple, well-designed and highly detailed model for this scale, suitable for modelers of all experience. Only beginners and modelers with little experience should work under the supervision of a more experienced colleague and it should not be one of the first more complex models they build. Where necessary, the parts are double-sided printed, the bottom cladding, propellers and some other parts are printed with metallic bronze paint. Both: graphic and textual instructions are small and incomplete - they could be better. Text in Ukrainian, Polish, English and German.