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Thank you all very much for your kind and complimentary comments. Javier

It usually takes between a month and a half to two months to execute each miniature,

Thank you very much, Stefano, for your kind comments. On my website (https//barcosbaron.wordpress.com), in the "TÉCNICAS DE CONSTRUCCIÓN" section you can see and download some PDFs with build logs of some models. Perhaps the most complete is the "paso a paso embarcación prácticos de Marsella"...

Thank you, Uwek!!

The model was made from a plan made in 1789 by the marine painter Antoine Roux and reproduced by Admiral Paris in his work “Souvenir de Marine Conservés”. It wears only one mast perpendicular to the keel in its middle, which carries a large lateen sail, raised by an arrow sail as a flying...

In 1906, in the port of Le Bono, a village of Plougoumelen in the Gulf of Morbihan, more than a hundred forbans, on board of which fishermen worked with their trawl nets during the summer from Belle-Île to Île d 'Yeu, chasing soles, flounders and rays, while the women and retirees of the...

The mackerel drivers, mostly originating from St. Yves in West Cornwall, were driftnet and gillnetters fishing for mackerel and herring from the mid-19th century, when the fishing industry expanded to meet the growing demand caused by the expansion of the railway network. These luggers...

The hengst, a traditional Zeeland sailing ship, was a flat-bottomed boat with side daggerboards built for navigation in the Scheldt delta, characterized by its numerous shoals, narrows and strong currents with clear tidal influence. They were used mainly in Oosterscheldem and Westerschelde for...

Thank you very much, Peter, for your comment. This model makes number 99 of my collection of miniatures of working boats, which if you want you can see on my page https://barcosbaron.wordpress.com, , although it is only in Spanish. Javier

The Bahia saveiros were born in Recôncavo Baiano, in the shipyards of various locations such as Massaranduba and Cabrito in Itagipe, Santo Amaro, São Roque, Cachoeira, São Félix, Ilha de Bom Jesus, Madre de Deus, São Francisco do Conde, Santo Amaro de Catu, Tubarão, Salinas da Margarida...

Thank you very much to all of you who have made such kind and appreciative comments. Javier

Pinky schooners, a common type of New England fishing vessel, sailed from local Cape Ann ports from the early 18th century to the early 20th century. In 1839, there were 64 registered pinky schooners in Cape Ann and its district. Pinkies were generally small boats from which men fished...

The Setúbal hiate has its origin in the Dutch cabotage ships that in the 18th and 19th centuries went to the estuary of the Sado river to load salt. Setúbal salt, which had the property of bleaching fish in the salting process, was a highly appreciated product in northern European countries and...

Thank you very much for your kind comments. I really like fishing and work boats, and the proof is that in my collection, which now includes 97 miniatures, there is not a single cannon on board... Best regards :):)

Shallow draft, wide beam, cutter rigged fishing vessel used primarily for shrimping in the Thames and Medway estuaries until the early 20th century. Its rig differed from that of the "smacks" because it lacked a boom on the mainsail, so it could be easily furled when working with trawls. The...

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The cargo varinos appear as a response to the need to transport certain goods (cork, salt and wood) both from one river of the Tagus to the other, as well as for the cargo of the merchant ships that were waiting anchored at its mouth. In the last years of the 19th century, cork factories and...

The bateiras ílhavas, as their name indicates (Ílhavo is a Portuguese city, located in the district of Aveiro) are boats that, although they originated in the Ria de Aveiro, fished in the mouth of the Barra de Lisboa during the months of winter and were stranded in the summer on the beaches of...

Thank you for your comment. The shelves are bought at a DIY store and are made of laminated conglomerate, with fastening studs that are inserted into deep holes in the edge of the boards. I think that in the attached photos the system is perfectly understood.

Thank you very much for the comments. Uwe, right now my collection reaches 93 models, and although I don't have a single joint photo of all of them, I put several in which all of them appear together.