looking for pre-dreadnaught deck plans

[rugaruga]

I'm looking to scratch-build ironclads and pre-dreadnaught warships for some 19th century historical and hypothetical senerios in 1:1200 scale.  My problem is finding usable deck plans to serve as templates in order to cut out the deck levels.  I have Conway's book on the 1860-1905 period, but these show only elevation drawings.  The Jane's Fighting Ships books cover too late a period.  I also have Parkes'  vol. on British ships, but I need plans for other nations, especially France. It would be alright if the plans were to a drifferent scale.  Any suggestions on sources.

[Mad Carew Snr]

Heres some nice info about USS Monitor - http://civilwartalk.com/plugins/p2_news/printarticle.php?p2_articleid=96 - hope it helps

[Doc Twilight]

I'm looking to scratch-build ironclads and pre-dreadnaught warships for some 19th century historical and hypothetical senerios in 1:1200 scale.  My problem is finding usable deck plans to serve as templates in order to cut out the deck levels.  I have Conway's book on the 1860-1905 period, but these show only elevation drawings.  The Jane's Fighting Ships books cover too late a period.  I also have Parkes'  vol. on British ships, but I need plans for other nations, especially France. It would be alright if the plans were to a drifferent scale.  Any suggestions on sources.

Rugaruga -

I moderate a large, fairly active Pre-Dreadnaught discussion group/mailing list at Yahoogroups caled "Predred". You might find some of the answers you seek by joining up with us there.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/predred/

-Doc