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Ported to OBJ and given both basic textures and further modding from the original low-poly STL format waterline only wargaming model created by Patrick Woodard as part of his many Civil War 3D printable miniatures packs. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download the pack at the link below (it contains multiple models BTW) but be warned! STL models are made for 3D printing and do not come with textures, so you'll have to do the job yourself. The original is also low-poly and waterline only because it was meant for printing as a tabletop wargaming miniature. Finally, my mod also includes extra bits such as the flagpole, protruding gun barrels, added lower hull, and propulsion machinery that are not part of the the original model. You'll have to round those up too and add them yourself if you want to enhance/improve his original as well. Here's the link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:3179…

CSS Palmetto State was one of the most successful of the so-called Richmond class ironclad rams of the Confederate States Navy (CSN) during the American Civil War (1862-1865). These were second generation CSN ironclads designed by John C. Porter, original designer of the legendary CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimac) that featured a number of changes and improvements over the original design in order to make it more effective in combat. If they had a fault it was their designed draft of about 13 feet, which made operation in inland rivers and waterways not only difficult but sometimes impossible due to their lesser depths. Anyway, back to the subject. Palmetto State was one of the members of the Richmond class and she was built during the later part of 1862 along with her almost identical sister ship and fellow class member CSS Chicora at Charleston, South Carolina. Both were built as ironclad rams from the keel up as called for in Porter's Richmond class spec; however, they had to use existing engines from other craft due to wartime shortages and this made them slow and underpowered. One unusual and rather prominent deviation from the Richmond spec was that they had their pilothouses mounted aft of their main stacks (see preview piccy above) in order to make it easier for the pilot to communicate with the engine room, even though the main stack blocked his field of vision (remember, this is the era of speaking tubes and such). Both got their 15 minutes of fame during the war on 31 January 1863 in their maiden battle, when they attacked the Union fleet blockading Charleston harbor, disabling and capturing the Union warship USS Mercedia and so badly damaging the Union paddlewheel steamer USS Keystone State that she wound up becoming disabled and was saved only by other Union warships joining the fray. Keystone State still had power to one of her paddlewheels and with help from other Union ships was eventually able to withdraw from the battle, while the rest and the two Confederate ironclads engaged in a long range gunnery duel that did little damage to either side. The Union fleet withdrew from their previously held inshore positions to positions farther out due to the attack of the ironclads, which caused the Confederate government to claim not only victory but that the blockade of Charleston had been broken. Any victory was symbolic at best and the latter was simply not true, as the Union fleet simply enforced their blockade from further out than before in order to avoid any future engagements with the two CSN ironclads. Palmetto State would earn another 15 minutes of Civil War fame during the first week of April 1863, later that year, when she helped repel an attack from forces led by Union Admiral Samuel du Pont that tried unsuccessfully to overpower the Charleston harbor forts. She wound up becoming one of the longest lived CSN ironclads; however, her end was inevitable and predictable and followed in the same wake as her legendary predecessor CSS Virginia. In Feburary 1865 almost at the end of the war, as Union forces led by General William T. Sherman were advancing overland to take Charleston from behind, the decision was made to put both Palmetto State and Chicora to the torch rather than let them fall into Union hands. The deed was done on 18 February, and upon entering the city all the Union forces found of them were their smoking and gutted remains.

This model is a simplified approximation of CSS Palmetto State as she was originally launched and as she went to her first battle in January of 1862. All sources agree she had only four guns at the time, and all agree that she two large rifled guns on swivel mounts fore and aft (hence the three holes in the casemate on each end for multiple firing positions) as well as two smaller smoothbores, one on each side in offset mounts. Where they differ is what they were. We also know that later on a spar torpedo was added to her bow, and still later six more cannon slots were cut into her casemate so her carried battery could be upped to total of ten guns - one large each fore and aft, and eight smaller to each side. That was her final form in 1865 when she was put to the torch to avoid capture.

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.

TRIVIA - Both Palmetto State and her sister ship Chicora earned the enviable reputation of being some of the cleanest and most efficiently run ironclads on either side during the American Civil War, and this was a matter of pride both for their officers and crews. This is notable given the normally excessively hot, humid, and generally dirty conditions below decks on almost all early ironclad warships.

Description

Ported to OBJ and given both basic textures and further modding from the original low-poly STL format waterline only wargaming model created by Patrick Woodard as part of his many Civil War 3D printable miniatures packs. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. You can download the pack at the link below (it contains multiple models BTW) but be warned! STL models are made for 3D printing and do not come with textures, so you'll have to do the job yourself. The original is also low-poly and waterline only because it was meant for printing as a tabletop wargaming miniature. Finally, my mod also includes extra bits such as the flagpole, protruding gun barrels, added lower hull, and propulsion machinery that are not part of the the original model. You'll have to round those up too and add them yourself if you want to enhance/improve his original as well. Here's the link:

www.thingiverse.com/thing:3179…

CSS Palmetto State was one of the most successful of the so-called Richmond class ironclad rams of the Confederate States Navy (CSN) during the American Civil War (1862-1865). These were second generation CSN ironclads designed by John C. Porter, original designer of the legendary CSS Virginia (ex-USS Merrimac) that featured a number of changes and improvements over the original design in order to make it more effective in combat. If they had a fault it was their designed draft of about 13 feet, which made operation in inland rivers and waterways not only difficult but sometimes impossible due to their lesser depths. Anyway, back to the subject. Palmetto State was one of the members of the Richmond class and she was built during the later part of 1862 along with her almost identical sister ship and fellow class member CSS Chicora at Charleston, South Carolina. Both were built as ironclad rams from the keel up as called for in Porter's Richmond class spec; however, they had to use existing engines from other craft due to wartime shortages and this made them slow and underpowered. One unusual and rather prominent deviation from the Richmond spec was that they had their pilothouses mounted aft of their main stacks (see preview piccy above) in order to make it easier for the pilot to communicate with the engine room, even though the main stack blocked his field of vision (remember, this is the era of speaking tubes and such). Both got their 15 minutes of fame during the war on 31 January 1863 in their maiden battle, when they attacked the Union fleet blockading Charleston harbor, disabling and capturing the Union warship USS Mercedia and so badly damaging the Union paddlewheel steamer USS Keystone State that she wound up becoming disabled and was saved only by other Union warships joining the fray. Keystone State still had power to one of her paddlewheels and with help from other Union ships was eventually able to withdraw from the battle, while the rest and the two Confederate ironclads engaged in a long range gunnery duel that did little damage to either side. The Union fleet withdrew from their previously held inshore positions to positions farther out due to the attack of the ironclads, which caused the Confederate government to claim not only victory but that the blockade of Charleston had been broken. Any victory was symbolic at best and the latter was simply not true, as the Union fleet simply enforced their blockade from further out than before in order to avoid any future engagements with the two CSN ironclads. Palmetto State would earn another 15 minutes of Civil War fame during the first week of April 1863, later that year, when she helped repel an attack from forces led by Union Admiral Samuel du Pont that tried unsuccessfully to overpower the Charleston harbor forts. She wound up becoming one of the longest lived CSN ironclads; however, her end was inevitable and predictable and followed in the same wake as her legendary predecessor CSS Virginia. In Feburary 1865 almost at the end of the war, as Union forces led by General William T. Sherman were advancing overland to take Charleston from behind, the decision was made to put both Palmetto State and Chicora to the torch rather than let them fall into Union hands. The deed was done on 18 February, and upon entering the city all the Union forces found of them were their smoking and gutted remains.

This model is a simplified approximation of CSS Palmetto State as she was originally launched and as she went to her first battle in January of 1862. All sources agree she had only four guns at the time, and all agree that she two large rifled guns on swivel mounts fore and aft (hence the three holes in the casemate on each end for multiple firing positions) as well as two smaller smoothbores, one on each side in offset mounts. Where they differ is what they were. We also know that later on a spar torpedo was added to her bow, and still later six more cannon slots were cut into her casemate so her carried battery could be upped to total of ten guns - one large each fore and aft, and eight smaller to each side. That was her final form in 1865 when she was put to the torch to avoid capture.

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.

TRIVIA - Both Palmetto State and her sister ship Chicora earned the enviable reputation of being some of the cleanest and most efficiently run ironclads on either side during the American Civil War, and this was a matter of pride both for their officers and crews. This is notable given the normally excessively hot, humid, and generally dirty conditions below decks on almost all early ironclad warships.