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Walter Snowdon:
Thanks to you both- that three funnel runner looks great. In my last message I misspelt the four funnelers name. it is spelt ROSINE. Further to the above she was ordered by J K GILLIAT for Frazer Trenholm. Apparently her and her sister never got to run - the war finished while they were still in Liverpool. In1869 she went to the Turkish navy as ESUR-I-NUSRET and was quite heavily armed. In an article by the
americansocietyofarms.org there is a detailed description of her by the american ambassader at Liverpool including fittings and colours. in the same article are two small photographs described as a builders model. As I dont have a printer I went to the library but was unsuccsesful in printing them! This is the model which I HOPE is in the Liverpool museum. Sorry for the long winded spiel!! walter.

Hankwilliams:
I suppose, the model of "CONDOR" may be in find museum of Ft. Fisher in North Carolina. I have send an E-mail to Ft. Fisher. May be, I will get some answere with more pictures and information. We will see.

Thomas

Hankwilliams:
Found a picture of a quite good model of sistership blockade runner "FLAMINGO".

Hankwilliams:
Probably my 3. Blockade Runner.

In the net are pictures of 3 different models of blockade runner "CONDOR" in US museums. The "Condor" type was a series of 5 identical ships build by Randolf Elder & Co of Govan 1863/64 named EVELYN, FALCO, FLAMINGO and PTARMIGAN. Rather little is documentary - as good as nothing but CONDOR and FLAMINGO.
First model should be in Fort Fisher, near Wilmington. I don`t know about the standplace of model 2 and 3. Last model is rather different from the first 2 models, for my point of view, it seems not very authentic.

In every case: I am drawing plans of CONDOR after the pictures of first two models. Lenght will be 1600 mm at a scale of 1 : 42. Scale must be little bigger than the common 1 : 48, because the weight of a projected steam driven model.

Thomas

Hankwilliams:
The improved side elevation. The distance at the superstructure between deckhouse and stern, boiler casing and rudder house  now is correct.

Thomas

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