An ACW Ironclad

Quite a few years ago I painted up a series of stands to play American Civil War in 15mm using the Volley and Bayonet rules. I plan to add a few more stands to each side (currently the collection includes 16 infantry brigades, some artillery batteries, and one regiment of cavalry per side). With encouragement from 'gaming friends Adrian and Jon I bought the  Sarissa model of the USS Monitor . I assembled and painted the model itself a month of two ago, and finally found the motivation to base it ready for action. Here it is.

I painted the water effect with a green/dirty brown base, as I figured that North American rivers aren't exactly pristine pure blue. I do recall from my visit to Memphis some years ago that at that point anyway the Mississippi ran looking pretty brown and discoloured.

Righto... I guess I should try and organise some games.