Description
Perfect for war games or dioramas.
USS Puritan was laid down in 1863, and was originally designed by John Ericsson to have two turrets, each mounting two 20-inch Dahlgren guns. She was part of an effort alongside Dictator and several other ocean going monitors in the event that the British or French became involved in the war. Due to weight issues, Ericsson was persuaded to alter the design to a single turret in 1865, still mounting a pair of 20-inch guns. Delays in her construction and issues with casting the massive guns, Puritan was never completed and she remained on the stocks and sold to John Roach in 1874. During the rebuilding of the navy in the 1870s and 1880s, Congress told the Navy Department that the languishing Civil War ironclad was being repaired. However in reality, due to Congress refusing to fund the construction of new ships at the time, Puritan was being completely rebuilt with the funds allocated for the repairs.
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***