{"id":10453,"date":"2026-04-05T16:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?page_id=10453"},"modified":"2026-04-05T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T21:38:10","slug":"uss-monitor","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?page_id=10453","title":{"rendered":"USS Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Launched only 100 days after she was initially laid down in the shipyard, USS Monitor <\/em>was commissioned on February 25, 1862. She promptly left for Hampton Roads where she confronted the Confederate ship CSS Virginia <\/em>on March 9th. While the battle was a technical draw, it did mark the first time armored warships met in battle. After the battle, Monitor <\/em>remained in the Hampton Roads and James River theaters of operation. In December of that year she was ordered south. While being towed off of Cape Hatteras, she sank in a heavy storm on December 31, 1862. Her wreck was discovered in 1974, certified a national marine sanctuary, and since several artifacts have been recovered from the wreck site, including her massive gun turret. All relics from Monitor <\/em>are being conserved and displayed at the Mariner’s Museum Monitor Center<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the Thoroughbred Miniatures 1\/600th scale kit, in white metal, of the American Civil War ironclad. Great kit, easy build. The only modifications I did were to remove one of the protruding guns, as she couldn’t have both guns run-out at the same time. I drilled out the barrel on the remaining gun. Besides adding a single photoetched crew figure, that’s pretty much it for construction. I did minor weathering on this build, as it was done quite some time ago, and I wasn’t up to speed on the weathering process yet. <\/p>\n\n\n