CSS Alabama by Beakerboy123 - Mamoli - 1:120

[Beakerboy123]

Re-starting this Mamoli CSS Alabama that I got as a Christmas present in 2009 when I didn’t know squazine about how to build. Then I got some practicums and built their kits and decided to strip my Alabama down to the bulkheads and start over. Duczec Models sent me replacement wood and I finally got done with my previous ship. Now I’m ready to build this one. 
 

A friend from the Model Shipwrights of Ohio loaned me his CSS Alabama: Anatomy of a Confederate Raider (Bowcock) to guide me along. 
 

Let’s see how this turns out. I’ll be adding some pics next.

[Knocklouder]

Good luck on your journey with this build.          Bob  M.

[Beakerboy123]

Tore he old hull down to the “studs”. Dusek Models sent me a new laser cut panel and replacement wood to start over. Shipping actually cost more than the wood. I’d do things differently now but I didn’t want complicated so I paid for convenience.

 

Here’s the blank canvas in my homemade keel vice. 

I installed the lifting frame and propeller. using as my guide the Bowcock book, which bases its measurements and drawings on original builders blueprints as well as two models that are also based on those blueprints, one is on display in an art gallery in the town the Alabama was built (Laird Model), the other is on display at the Mariner’s Museum at Newport News (Bolloch Model). 

I’ll take the prop out to sand down the aft section around the stern cabin. 

 

[Jim Lad]

Very courageous move to simply start again!

 

John

[Snug Harbor Johnny]

The journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step.  Sometimes taking that step is the hardest to do.  The famous quote by Bilbo Baggins, as quoted by Frodo, is: “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off too.”