Exterior hull detail is limited. There is a faint wood pattern to both the above water and below water portions of the hull. A prominent keel runs from the beak of the forecastle to the rudder. At the stern are the two propeller shaft skegs and the above water rudder post. At the bow are anchor chain scuttles and cathead openings. At the top of the bulkheads are double horizontal strakes extending outward with openings in the bulkheads for the guns. The deck has planking detail but there is no butt end detail. Most of the other deck detail lies on the centerline. The bowsprit base and support block are nice. The deck is dominated by the circular bases of the two pivot guns. Between the two bases are two singular coamings, a skylight and the bases for the foremast and main mast. Aft of the rear base plate is a double coaming and the base of the mizzen mast. On each side of the deck are deck openings for the anchor chain, and raised coal scuttles.
There are nine resin runners of smaller resin parts for the Chattahoochee, which is quite a lot for a small gunboat. There is small amount of flash and of course the attachment points of the parts with the runner will needed to be sanded once the part is removed from the runner. The largest of these parts is the funnel, which is hollow to a very good depth, with nicely done steam pipe with whistle and horizontal reinforcing band. Also on the runner are eight more parts. These are four ratline attachment boards that go on the exterior of the hull for the foremast and main mast, two curved boards of the same type for the mizzen mast and two strakes for the gun openings of the forward pivot gun. Each part is numbered on the runner (1 through 9) with the part matching the part number in the instruction. This greatly eases the attachment location for each part. There are two runners with multiple part 10, which are block and tackle for the masts’ ratlines. There are 28 of these parts with 16 on one runner and 12 on the other. Parts 11 to 19 share a runner and are composed of the 9-inch Dahlgren pivot gun barrel, the Dahlgren’s carriage, binnacle, ship’ s wheel post, two anchors, galley stack with conical top, anchor windlass, three mast bottom reinforcing bands and rudder. A small runner has three part #20, which are the three mast primary platforms. Parts 21 and 22 are on a runner with four boat davits with eyeholes (21) and six mast upper supports and bowsprit supports (22). Parts 23, two ship’s boats with bottom ribbing and deck detail, and two parts 24, the propellers are on a runner. The last large runner has three part numbers, #25 for the five 32-pdr guns, #26 for their carriages and #27 for three mast boom brackets. There are two small runners with unnumbered parts, which are the deck twin bollard fittings, the attachment location of which is clearly shown in the plan view of the instructions.
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