C.S.S. Arkansas Ironclad Warship (1/96 Scale, 96-004)

by Cottage Industry Models

Scale

1:96 (1/8 in=1 ft)

Construction

Resin

Status

Available

Prototype ship: CSS Arkansas

A roughly 24-inch-long multimedia kit with a cast-resin hull and fittings plus metal (white-metal) parts, designed to be finished as a cutaway or full model. The manufacturer states it features six different historically accurate gun types with five matching carriage styles rather than generic armament, a complete interior, and an instruction book with 7 pages of text and 10 pages of illustrations. Builders on modeling forums report the resin hull is only about 6 main parts and is very cleanly molded, though it comes with vacuum-formed plastic sails that some modelers replace with cloth, and metal fittings that need painting.