Ron Verburg
Fuquay Verina, North Carolina
In October 1864, Union Lt. William B. Cushing took two picket boats armed with spar torpedoes and stole up the Roanoke River to the Confederate docks and sank the ironclad CSS Albemarle. Ron built a Cottage Industries 1/96 scale kit of Cushing’s steam picket boat No. 1, inspired by the raid. After primer, he painted the deck three different shades of brown and the hull flat black.