best 1200 ACW ships?

[vtsaogames]

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who makes the best 1/1200 ACW ships of all?

[Kelly_]

For STLs I would check out Long Face Games at Wargame Vault, he has dozens of designs for North and South that are built at 1/600 and listed as scalable down to 1/1200.

[SJWi]

I haven't seen them for many years but Langton Miniatures ships were excellent. I think Thoroughbred inthe US produce very nice ones too but not sure if they are still available. In UK there is also Spithead Miniatures who produce many 17-19th century naval ranges in a variety of scales. Best to e-mail him for a list.

[robh]

Thoroughbred make the best ACW vessels (in any scale) but I think they are only 1/600 and they are in process of re-locating so not taking orders currently.

I do not know 1/1200 manufacturers in USA but in UK Spithead are very good, although they only sell sets and battle packs, and despite their age, the Navwar models are pretty good.
Spithead are only contactable via Facebook (no account needed to reach them) and Navwar are in a strange situation at the moment as the owner died recently and ordering (by post or fax only) is a bit hit or miss.

[vtsaogames]

I have a 4 X 6 foot hex mat with 4" hexes. Some 1/600 ships are longer than 4". All 1/1200 will fit within. 

[bluewillow]

Langton by far, followed by waterline then Navwar, I think hinchcliff had some too back in the 80s

The majority of mine are Langton.

Cheers
Matt

[sjwalker51]

Not so well known, and currently without a website, but check out Spithead Miniatures (they have a page on Facebook), who have an extensive range of ACW, South American and European Ironclads.

Phil is very prompt at sending price lists etc (ordering information is on the FB Page) - he’s a 1-man band for whom the modelling is a hobby who then makes the models available in limited production runs rather than a full scale business.

Photo of some paddle steamers taken from his page