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Ported to OBJ, textured, and further modified from the STL format low poly tabletop war gaming model created by Patrick Woodard. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download Mr. Woodard's original STL model as part of his Confederate Ironclads Pack at the link below but be warned! STL models normally come untextured because they're made for use with 3D printers, with the end user expected to hand paint the 3D printed model. Furthermore I've added extra parts to this one in order to soup it up a bit and make it look somewhat better. If you want this to look the way it does in the above picture (or even better if you have the skill), then you'll have to round up your own textures and extra parts and do the job yourself, just like I did. Here's that link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:3179…

CSS Richmond was the lead ship in what has since become known as the six ship Richmond class of ironclad rams built for the Confederate States Navy (CSN) during the American Civil War (1862-65). All of these were built from the keel up as ironclad rams, as opposed to being converted from existing hulls. Designed by Confederate Chief Naval Constructor John Porter, they were basically improved versions of the original ground-breaking CSS Virginia of Hampton Roads fame but with many lessons learned from that epic first clash of ironclad warships in the world taken into account. Richmond herself was built and launched during the spring of 1862 and became the most powerful warship in the CSN's James River Squadron when she entered service, replacing Virginia herself when she couldn't be brought upriver due to her deep draft and had to be destroyed to prevent capture by Union ground forces. Sources disagree on the exact composition of Richmond's armament and the number of guns she carried (at least four and no more than six). All of them agree they were 7-inch Brooke naval rifles of various types but disagree on exactly which specific types and in what positions they were mounted. They do agree that like almost all Confederate ironclads Richmond was underpowered, given that her power plant had originally belong to the brig Arctic and was unsuited for use with an ironclad, but again like almost all of them the CSN had to make do with whatever power plants were available at the time. That was why she was rather slow like them, with a top speed of only six knots; however, her ironclad construction plus her powerful weapons battery made her a warship to be reckoned with at that time. She also had a reinforced bow fitted with a ram for ramming actions (hence the name ironclad ram), and she was later fitted with a spar torpedo on her bow to make her even more deadly to attacking Union vessels.

The James River Squadron, which in its later years also included the ironclad CSS Fredricksburg and later on CSS Virginia II, and would have included CSS Texas had it been finished (it wasn't due to chronic shortages of metal plate), was involved in many minor skirmishes with Union ground and naval forces, sometimes both, for the rest of the war. By the end of the war Richmond and those vessels that survived had been reduced to impotence thanks to Union advances, with all ships docked in the harbor while their crews helped to work the heavy guns that were part of the city's defensive works. Once it became clear that Union forces were going to take the Confederate capital, then Richmond and all other CSN naval vessels present were set on fire and blown up on the night of 2-3 April 1854 to prevent their capture and reuse by the Union. What remains of her lies deep in the silt of the harbor near Chaffin's Bluff to this day.

This model is missing the bow ram, the spar torpedo, and many of the finer details of the original Richmond. That's because it was originally created for use as a small naval war gaming miniature, and I for my part only added the lower hull structure (borrowed from another model), the missing guns, and the flagpole. That said I think it's still decent for what it is, and it will do nicely as a placeholder for now. I hope you have fun with it too once you download it and start playing with it yourselves. XD

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. If you use, mod, re-release in original or modded form or do anything else with Mr. Woodard's models, please give him credit for his original handiwork, okay? Thank you.

Description

Ported to OBJ, textured, and further modified from the STL format low poly tabletop war gaming model created by Patrick Woodard. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download Mr. Woodard's original STL model as part of his Confederate Ironclads Pack at the link below but be warned! STL models normally come untextured because they're made for use with 3D printers, with the end user expected to hand paint the 3D printed model. Furthermore I've added extra parts to this one in order to soup it up a bit and make it look somewhat better. If you want this to look the way it does in the above picture (or even better if you have the skill), then you'll have to round up your own textures and extra parts and do the job yourself, just like I did. Here's that link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:3179…

CSS Richmond was the lead ship in what has since become known as the six ship Richmond class of ironclad rams built for the Confederate States Navy (CSN) during the American Civil War (1862-65). All of these were built from the keel up as ironclad rams, as opposed to being converted from existing hulls. Designed by Confederate Chief Naval Constructor John Porter, they were basically improved versions of the original ground-breaking CSS Virginia of Hampton Roads fame but with many lessons learned from that epic first clash of ironclad warships in the world taken into account. Richmond herself was built and launched during the spring of 1862 and became the most powerful warship in the CSN's James River Squadron when she entered service, replacing Virginia herself when she couldn't be brought upriver due to her deep draft and had to be destroyed to prevent capture by Union ground forces. Sources disagree on the exact composition of Richmond's armament and the number of guns she carried (at least four and no more than six). All of them agree they were 7-inch Brooke naval rifles of various types but disagree on exactly which specific types and in what positions they were mounted. They do agree that like almost all Confederate ironclads Richmond was underpowered, given that her power plant had originally belong to the brig Arctic and was unsuited for use with an ironclad, but again like almost all of them the CSN had to make do with whatever power plants were available at the time. That was why she was rather slow like them, with a top speed of only six knots; however, her ironclad construction plus her powerful weapons battery made her a warship to be reckoned with at that time. She also had a reinforced bow fitted with a ram for ramming actions (hence the name ironclad ram), and she was later fitted with a spar torpedo on her bow to make her even more deadly to attacking Union vessels.

The James River Squadron, which in its later years also included the ironclad CSS Fredricksburg and later on CSS Virginia II, and would have included CSS Texas had it been finished (it wasn't due to chronic shortages of metal plate), was involved in many minor skirmishes with Union ground and naval forces, sometimes both, for the rest of the war. By the end of the war Richmond and those vessels that survived had been reduced to impotence thanks to Union advances, with all ships docked in the harbor while their crews helped to work the heavy guns that were part of the city's defensive works. Once it became clear that Union forces were going to take the Confederate capital, then Richmond and all other CSN naval vessels present were set on fire and blown up on the night of 2-3 April 1854 to prevent their capture and reuse by the Union. What remains of her lies deep in the silt of the harbor near Chaffin's Bluff to this day.

This model is missing the bow ram, the spar torpedo, and many of the finer details of the original Richmond. That's because it was originally created for use as a small naval war gaming miniature, and I for my part only added the lower hull structure (borrowed from another model), the missing guns, and the flagpole. That said I think it's still decent for what it is, and it will do nicely as a placeholder for now. I hope you have fun with it too once you download it and start playing with it yourselves. XD

For non-profit, non-commercial use only. If you use, mod, re-release in original or modded form or do anything else with Mr. Woodard's models, please give him credit for his original handiwork, okay? Thank you.