Kendall Brown
Plano, Texas

This Revell 1/96 scale CSS Alabama is anything but box-stock. Kendall used the hull and deck fittings from the 1060s kit, but installed a wooden deck, and scratchbuilt fittings, block and tackle, and cannons. He made the sails from physicians exam-table paper on a roll, lightly sprayed it with Krylon Flat White, crumpled and then stretched repeated until each piece was soft without wrinkles. He developed a method for using Testors Copper enamel with a Dull Earth overspray then tinted each plate with Scale Color washes. He masked every plate with blue painters tape and peels it off to lift layers of overspray for a realistic finish.