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2. T e monitor Veshchun (a sister of Uragan) early in its career. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph NH 84753.


than develop its own design, the Russian Navy’s Shipbuilding Technical Committee decided to use these drawings without any changes and promptly contracted for the construction of ten near-clones of the Passaic class, the fi rst of which was Uragan. (Figure 2) T e best single reference for information about these monitors is Stephen McLaughlin’s article in Warship 2012, but one should be careful using the drawings, especially the elevation and upper deck plan, because they sometime confl ate features present at diff erent times during these warships’ quite lengthy careers.


Building the model


I have once again become very enthusiastic about paper modeling as a medium for creating replicas of iron or steel warships. It is not always an easy medium with which to work but it also is amazingly fl exible. I therefore decided to base my model on the very nice freely-downloadable 1:250-scale paper model of Lehigh, a Passaic class monitor, by the fi ne designer Magnus Mörck (who sadly died quite recently) from http://www.modelsnmoore.com/. (Figure 3) T is download also off ers the option of building a model of USS Catskill or USS Patapsco of the same class and


3. Magnus Mörck’s paper kit for USS Lehigh.


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