Yet another Walden Models project...

**Oliver Weiss** · #1 06-10-2009, 03:16 PM

Here's yet another exploratory design that may or may not result in a model / kit. Who wants to guess?

Cheers,

Oliver

**ccoyle** · #2 06-10-2009, 03:55 PM

USS Katahdin?

**Oliver Weiss** · #3 06-10-2009, 04:09 PM

Nope, though that would be a nice model as well... This one was launched just over 20 years earlier than Katahdin, and on the other side of the Atlantic.

Cheers,

Oliver

**Golden Bear** · #4 06-10-2009, 05:08 PM

Is this your Project X? I have no clue about the ship but I like that other people have "can't resist" projects cropping up!

Carl

**Kazziga** · #5 06-10-2009, 05:41 PM

It looks like the French ram Taureau.

**zot** · #6 06-10-2009, 06:11 PM

How about the 1871 armored ram Tigre or at least one of the other Cerbere class of armored rams: Cerbere, Belier, or Bouledogue.

**Golden Bear** · #7 06-10-2009, 06:51 PM

Now that Zot draws my attention to them, Cerbère, etc. seem like a good guess except that the bow is a little too humped perhaps. I have no photos of Tarbeau so just don't knowl

Carl

**Oliver Weiss** · #8 06-10-2009, 08:08 PM

Kazziga's got it - It's indeed Taureau. If I built it as a model, it'd be just over 23cm long at 1:250 scale. Yet this little ram was briefly the terror of the Royal Navy! It was conceived for harbor and coastal defense, and it begat a whole slew of similar vessels, several of which were mentioned above.

Cheers,

Oliver

**Gil** · #9 06-10-2009, 10:46 PM

Hi Oliver,

And all this time I thought it was a QA test escape from an Oscar Meyer wiener plant. . . ,

Sorry, but I had to do it. . . ,

+Gil

**Oliver Weiss** · #10 06-11-2009, 08:35 AM

Actually, Gil, you're quite right. It's a prototype for their new "MaidenDream" line of sausages