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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 Union 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:3184…

This was a class of four double-turreted coastal monitors commissioned by the Union Navy late in the American Civil War (1862-65) with only two completed in time to see wartime service and only one of those actual combat, with the other two not completed until after the end of the war. They were based on earlier experiments and one-off designs during the war with both double-turreted shallow draft monitors (such as the wartime veteran USS Onondoga) and ones with deep draft hulls (such as the one-off USS New Ironsides). The intent was to produce a oceangoing ironclad with all the benefits of the revolutionary wartime monitors and their turret-mounted batteries. This development process was watched keenly by other naval powers around the world and in retrospect marked the birth of the multi-turreted, all-gun warship that would dominate the seas for the next century or so. Deep draft hulls made for far better sea boats, as the dramatic loss of Monitor itself during a heavy storm had proven, although this new breed of oceangoing monitors still tended to be "wet" in rough seas given their low decks. On the post-war Mintonomoh class, armament consisted of two 15-inch smoothbore Dalghren guns and two 15-inch Parrot rifles, with one of each in each of the two turrets for a combined four gun battery in two twin turrets. Both were proven naval weapons during the Civil War and the mixed gun battery was meant to provide the best possible flexibility in combat situations. The twin turrets and their tracking gear were very similar to those used first on the wartime Passaic class (see separate entry) and on a number of other wartime classes. The armoring scheme was likewise similar to the wartime Passaic class but reworked to cover both the larger hull and the twin gun turrets.

Class members Agamenticus and Monadnock were the only one completed in time for the Civil War. Agamenticus was the first to be commissioned on 5 May 1864 but spent her entire wartime service guarding northeastern waters against potential Confederate raiders and thus never saw action. Monadnock entered the service of the United States Navy (USN) on 4 October 1864, and her chief contributions during its last year were to take part in the bombardment of Fort Fisher in Virginia during January of 1865 in what turned out to be the largest amphibious assault in history prior to World War II, and being on ready standby to meet and destroy the Confederate oceangoing ironclad CSS Stonewall as it made its way to the States from Denmark, where the Confederacy had purchased it from the Danes. Long story there, best told elsewhere. The expected clash never happened due to the end of the war, and Stonewall eventually wound up with the Japanese as their very first ironclad (oh, the irony) while the rest of Monadnock's sister ships - Tonawanda and Miantomonoh- finally entered USN service in the fall of 1865. They were too late for the war but saw plenty of peacetime service with their veteran sister ships in helping to form the backbone of the world's first ironclad navy. Class member Tonawanda in particular was reassigned to the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland as its primary training ship, being a modern ironclad and all that and also being renamed Amphitrite in the process, and remained there for the rest of her postwar career. Another significant postwar achievement of the class was the round trip ocean crossing in 1866-67 by class ship Miantomonoh on a diplomatic mission to Imperial Russia - done mostly under tow from the former veteran Union blockade ship Augusta to save coal and with beautiful weather (and calm seas, wink) blessing most of the journey. The Miantomonoh class was fated not to last long, however, as beneath their iron armor and decking they were still wooden ships. By the early 1870s signs of wood rot were already beginning to show with all four. The U.S. Congress authorized funds obstensibly for the rebuilding of the entire class, but in truth for the building of an all-new class of oceangoing monitors built entirely of iron from the keel up so they would last longer. This was in keeping with the Navy's own intentions (their "New Navy" program at the time), so all four were decommissioned in the mid 1870s and subsequently scrapped. A later "New Navy" class of oceangoing monitors (the Amphitrite class) was built and most of its members named in their honor.

This was an interesting little project and required a bit more work than my custom mods of Mr. Woodard's Confederate ironclad rams, given the double turrets and deep water hulls of this class of Union ironclads. I wound up borrowing the lower hull from Tom Sanford's generic Civil War era USN steam frigate for Microsoft's Flight Simulator series and resized it to fit (roughly), added the small boats and a few other details, then textured everything per some recreated plans I found online. It's not perfect and is still missing everything the real ships had, but I daresay it makes for a good placeholder for my Mandel's online image collection. I hope you have as much fun texturing it and tricking it out on your part as I did. 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 Union 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:3184…

This was a class of four double-turreted coastal monitors commissioned by the Union Navy late in the American Civil War (1862-65) with only two completed in time to see wartime service and only one of those actual combat, with the other two not completed until after the end of the war. They were based on earlier experiments and one-off designs during the war with both double-turreted shallow draft monitors (such as the wartime veteran USS Onondoga) and ones with deep draft hulls (such as the one-off USS New Ironsides). The intent was to produce a oceangoing ironclad with all the benefits of the revolutionary wartime monitors and their turret-mounted batteries. This development process was watched keenly by other naval powers around the world and in retrospect marked the birth of the multi-turreted, all-gun warship that would dominate the seas for the next century or so. Deep draft hulls made for far better sea boats, as the dramatic loss of Monitor itself during a heavy storm had proven, although this new breed of oceangoing monitors still tended to be "wet" in rough seas given their low decks. On the post-war Mintonomoh class, armament consisted of two 15-inch smoothbore Dalghren guns and two 15-inch Parrot rifles, with one of each in each of the two turrets for a combined four gun battery in two twin turrets. Both were proven naval weapons during the Civil War and the mixed gun battery was meant to provide the best possible flexibility in combat situations. The twin turrets and their tracking gear were very similar to those used first on the wartime Passaic class (see separate entry) and on a number of other wartime classes. The armoring scheme was likewise similar to the wartime Passaic class but reworked to cover both the larger hull and the twin gun turrets.

Class members Agamenticus and Monadnock were the only one completed in time for the Civil War. Agamenticus was the first to be commissioned on 5 May 1864 but spent her entire wartime service guarding northeastern waters against potential Confederate raiders and thus never saw action. Monadnock entered the service of the United States Navy (USN) on 4 October 1864, and her chief contributions during its last year were to take part in the bombardment of Fort Fisher in Virginia during January of 1865 in what turned out to be the largest amphibious assault in history prior to World War II, and being on ready standby to meet and destroy the Confederate oceangoing ironclad CSS Stonewall as it made its way to the States from Denmark, where the Confederacy had purchased it from the Danes. Long story there, best told elsewhere. The expected clash never happened due to the end of the war, and Stonewall eventually wound up with the Japanese as their very first ironclad (oh, the irony) while the rest of Monadnock's sister ships - Tonawanda and Miantomonoh- finally entered USN service in the fall of 1865. They were too late for the war but saw plenty of peacetime service with their veteran sister ships in helping to form the backbone of the world's first ironclad navy. Class member Tonawanda in particular was reassigned to the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) at Annapolis, Maryland as its primary training ship, being a modern ironclad and all that and also being renamed Amphitrite in the process, and remained there for the rest of her postwar career. Another significant postwar achievement of the class was the round trip ocean crossing in 1866-67 by class ship Miantomonoh on a diplomatic mission to Imperial Russia - done mostly under tow from the former veteran Union blockade ship Augusta to save coal and with beautiful weather (and calm seas, wink) blessing most of the journey. The Miantomonoh class was fated not to last long, however, as beneath their iron armor and decking they were still wooden ships. By the early 1870s signs of wood rot were already beginning to show with all four. The U.S. Congress authorized funds obstensibly for the rebuilding of the entire class, but in truth for the building of an all-new class of oceangoing monitors built entirely of iron from the keel up so they would last longer. This was in keeping with the Navy's own intentions (their "New Navy" program at the time), so all four were decommissioned in the mid 1870s and subsequently scrapped. A later "New Navy" class of oceangoing monitors (the Amphitrite class) was built and most of its members named in their honor.

This was an interesting little project and required a bit more work than my custom mods of Mr. Woodard's Confederate ironclad rams, given the double turrets and deep water hulls of this class of Union ironclads. I wound up borrowing the lower hull from Tom Sanford's generic Civil War era USN steam frigate for Microsoft's Flight Simulator series and resized it to fit (roughly), added the small boats and a few other details, then textured everything per some recreated plans I found online. It's not perfect and is still missing everything the real ships had, but I daresay it makes for a good placeholder for my Mandel's online image collection. I hope you have as much fun texturing it and tricking it out on your part as I did. 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.