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I found an presumibly American site (they are chinese) selling ZHL Misticque with a discount of 59% and another discount on top of that one giving a final price of around 113€ with port free. It is too good to be true, and of course it is a scam, if you google by the name of the site you find...

This model was released in France more than five years ago and was recently released here in Portugal. In France it followed the kit of the Soleil Royal also by Altaya, but the Soleil was never released here as far as I know, the Ambitieux is the first experiment of Altaya here in Portugal. It...

Today I visited our Museu de Marinha, just 15m by bus from where I live. My intention was to photograph the model of the Nau São Gabriel the Admiral ship of Vasco da Gama in the first ever voyage by sea to India, in order to clarify a question of our mate Tomek. I used to visit the Museum...

Once I had a small model boat... Then I got myself another small model boat and started scratch building yet another small model boat.;) My first small model boat was a Viking ship (Amati) that I changed substantially in order to get a passable model of a Viking ship (maybe a build log...

A friend of mine who gave up the hobby gave me some card models from the Shipyard brand, (Polland or Czech Republic, I am not sure), including some very sophisticated ones, the Victory, the Bellona and a lot more. I have no interest in card models, it is not my type of hobby, although I have...

I bought this kit a long time ago on a sale at ToysRus. At that time I built mainly gliders and Radio Control sail boats. I think it was so cheap that I couldn't resist it I had only a vague and platonic interest in model ships, so the box remained unopend for a long long time. I must say that...

Some details from the drakkar Oseberg currently in Oslo. This particular ship was a burial chamber but believed to have been sailed. The place is very dark and flash light is not allowed for obvious reasons, so the pictures are a bit on the dark side. Bow. General view of the bow and oars...

Hello Here are some photos taken during a trip to Norway, maybe it helps someone considering building a Viking ship.

Hello and good evening from Portugal. I found this forum on Facebook some time ago and since then I have visited it regularly and browsed with interest through many posts. Great works and great passion, my congratulations to you all I am 74, retired system engineer from IBM mainframes and...