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Default Are there any good 1:96 paddlewheel boats to make a tinclad gunboat?

I was wondering if there were any good quality paddlewheel models that could be modified to create one of the Union “Tinclad” river patrol boats.

I’ve included links to images of several of these warships;

http://www.cityofart.net/bship/tinclads.html

http://gvgpd.proboards.com/index.cgi...lay&thread=661

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US...al_Tinclad.jpg

http://rdricketts.com/blog/2009/03/2...d-in-danville/

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/i...000/h61566.jpg

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/i...000/h91812.jpg

http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache...6-466f79d1907c

My favorites are Gunboat 53 and the Forrest Rose.

Dumas’s Creole Queen looked like it might have been a good starting point until I figured out that it is a roughly 1:50th scale kit and I need a 1:96 scale kit to integrate this model with other models I have built.

Thank you in advance.