Nautical Research Journal 337


18. T e turret completed. Note the access ladder (from laser-cut paper), the hammocks in their stowage, the awning, and the awning stanchions.


leſt over piece of yellow card stock. I drew the plating divisions with a hard pencil and colored the top section black using a permanent marker, masking the edge with Kabuki tape. I also painted the reverse side very dark grey using a watercolour brush tip pen to avoid any possible bleeding through of the color to the front. A layer of 0.040-inch card formed the basis for the armor around the bottom of the funnel, sheathed with more thin yellow card stock; a circular strip of the same card created the rain protection gutter/air intake. T e steam pipe is from a length of painted brass rod. (Figure 13)


When they fi rst entered service these Russian monitors, like their American counterparts, had very little in the way of superstructure. T is changed greatly later in their careers, but initially the most prominent superstructure feature was a small boxlike structure towards the stern which housed the galley (not found on American monitors which employed a portable ‘cook box’ on the open deck). One odd feature was that the forward half of the roof was hinged to liſt upwards, possibly to cool the interior in the summer. I made the galley from plain white card with a door (and its window) added. I painted the roof with medium grey watercolor, drew in the hinge line, and added a piece of painted brass rod for the galley stack. (Figure 14)


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