Description
Perfect for war games or dioramas.
Savior of the Confederacy?
Unable to construct more advanced ships in the face of the Union blockade, the Confederacy commissioned British and French shipyards to build ships for them. CSS Stonewall was built in a French shipyard at Bordeaux, under the cover name of Sphinx, as an ironclad ram. She was initially sold to Denmark after French builders were forbidden from selling to the Confederacy. It turned out that Denmark didn't want the ship, and sold it to the Confederates anyway who commissioned her as CSS Stonewall. She never reached the Confederacy however, as she was captured at Havana, Cuba and was turned over to the US Navy.
She was then sold to the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, renamed Kotetsu and saw action at Hakodate Bay at the end of the Boshin War during the Meiji Restoration. After the war she was renamed once again to Azuma and saw a minor role in the Saga Rebellion and the Taiwan Expedition in 1874 and saw little use during the Satsuma Rebellion in 1877. She was stricken from the Japanese naval record in 1888 and sold for scrap in 1889.
Our Models are printed in .05 mm layer in resin to maximize the details. Resin colors are limited to Gray, White (Cures off white), Black, Clear Red, Clear Green, Clear Blue, or Yellow. We will contact you with current color choices if you order a color that is not available.
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We examine all of our items and will only send you the pieces that meet our standards.
All items are unpainted (unless otherwise stated) and will usually require some basic cleanup. This can be done with a hobby knife and/or high grit sandpaper.
Resin Printing does not melt plastic like FDM printing. Instead a photo curable liquid resin is placed in a vat and an LCD screen /LED array at specific wavelength (405 NM), which solidifies the liquid resin in that spot. The build plate then moves up to the next layer height (.05 mm or 5 microns in this case) and the process repeats. Each reaction attaches the 'cured' resin in the previous layer. After the printing is completed, we wash the excess resin off in an alcohol bath, and then place the model on a turntable with curing lights for several hours to harden the material to its final form. Resin printing offers a much finer level of detail/resolution at a higher material and consumable cost.
These are printed on demand for you. Orders will be printed and shipped in the order that they are received. If there are any delays, we will communicate with you the expected delivery date.
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Source models are copyright East Coast Ironclads, provided as an officially licensed printer.
***Products in pictures are example pieces. As these are individually printed, there may be small variations***