Hi every one. I am a retired navalarch. BC. Made my career on shipyards in Finland south and west coast mainly in design and prod. managing ship newbuildings. Now interested of boat and ship model building and made so far two schooners and one self design live aboard motor vessel ..read more

Hello, in recent years I have prepared several models of small boats, they are not majestic like the frigates or liners that I see here, but I think that those gunboats, fishing boats or small sailing merchants have their charm. Please, excuse my english Påjama Brynhilda (Part 1a of 6) Introduction In August 2022, I finished a swedish gunboat, based on some Amati plans as well as photos of model, which served as a guide and also with the support of several... Read more ..read more

I'm from The Netherlands. I live in Hoogeveen. A long time ago I have been building plastic models of mainly aeroplanes and rockets, I even had a model of Thunderbird 2. During my working days the modelbuilding got to a standstill, but now that I'm retired I am about picking that up again. In a few weeks I start the building of Kolderstok's Statenjacht. This will be my very first woorden build, so I keep my fingers crossed ..read more

Olya @shipphotographer.com just posted on Youtube Thank you, Olya. Enjoy everyone ..read more

Hi folks I am currently building a ww2 RN armed trawler, these small ships sometimes flew from their fore mast an admiralty kite / balloon as a fighter deterrent. What I would like to know is does anyone have a photograph or description of the winch? The only photograph I have come up with shows one only in silhouette and is pretty blurred. ​ I have attempted to build one with reference to a ww1 mobile balloon unit that showed a hand cranked winch on the back of a flatbed... Read more ..read more

Just a small post.I am a retired engineering designer from GE aircraft. I have had many hobbies ship modeling being one. I now find myself having to get rid of a lot of things that I have accumulated over the years. I have a number of ship modeling books that I need to make go away. One of whitch is Construction and fitting of a English Man of War.along with some Hanan books and The Fully Framed Model HMS Swan Class. If anyone id interested let me know and I will post a full list of what I... Read more ..read more

Já tinha construido alguns pequenos barcos, sem grande exigência, para os meus netos. Recentemente, atrevi-me a construir uma reprodução da caravela Nina, do Cristóvao Colombo, a partir de fotos e gravuras que fui obtendo na net, tendo executado todas as componentes do modelo a partir do zero e portanto com pouco rigor. No entanto, com a obra finalizada e criticada pelos familiares acabei por considerar que estava bastante aceitável. Anexo 3 fotos como exemplo. Futuramente, espero vir a... Read more ..read more

.​ The very launch of this thread has been made possible by the kind decision of curator Jonas Hedberg to make a recent 3D scan of the hitherto unidentified ship model Ö 6 from the collection of the Sjöhistoriska museet in Stockholm available for download. More information about this promising model can be found on the museum's website: Fartygsmodell - Sjöhistoriska museet / DigitaltMuseum And on the Sketchfab website: Ship of the line, c. 1700 | Linjeskepp, ca 1700 -... Read more ..read more

Although I've already built this, I did take photos as I went along so I thought you might be interested. It's a strange looking thing, flat bottomed and 'sharper' at the stern rather than the bow. I'm not a fan of repetitive fiddly things and masses of sails and rigging, so 5 big canon and one main mast + bow-sprit, etc seemed within my capabilities. It does have a massive sail area compared to beam which makes me think a good blow would tip it over, but it's a model of a real ship so it... Read more ..read more

Hello, since I'm going to turn one of my 1/1200 scale titanic in a what if hospital ship and myabe do another mauretania as a hospital ship, I've been wondering what yellow should I use, some rendering of britannic show it with a more ocher like yellow while other have it brighter. ... Read more ..read more