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Looking through the Modellbau Heute magazine from 1988, I was interested in a boat, widely used in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Baltic Sea, and what caught my attention was the shed hull and its capacity to transport live fish to the port. This type of boat is called Quatze. QUATZE...

I don't know if this raft qualifies as one of these beautiful ships that I see here, but it has an interesting history. Today I present a very simple model, but it is my recognition of the Peruvian expedition TANGAROA, headed by Don Carlos Caravedo Arca and two crew members who left Callao in...

After an exhausting 14-hour flight, I arrived in Stockholm and I will take advantage of this weekend to visit (again) the Vasa Museum with my grandchildren, while I present to you the model of a ship that I made a couple of years ago. TSERNIKI-SACOLEVA (1 rst Part) Introduction “From the 18th...

Turgut Reis Zırhlısı veya SMS Weißenburg, Alman İmparatorluğu Donanması'nın ilk okyanus ötesi savaş gemilerinden biridir. Alman Donanması İmparatorluğu'nun ardından son olarak Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ordusunda görev yaptı.en son görev yeri deniz harp okulu okul gemisidir (1931).hurdaya çıkış tarihi...

Pailebote "SACRAMENTO" 1821, First ship of the Peruvian fleet. Scratch, scale 1:75 OK… today I present to you a boat that I prepared a year ago and I pay tribute to the first ship of my country’s navy, which is: PAILEBOTE "SACRAMENTO": FIRST SHIP OF THE PERU SQUAD (Part 1 OF 2) The project I...

Schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD, (Part 1 of 2) History. The schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD, considered a National Historic Landmark (USA), is the last "Fredonia-type" fishing schooner in existence. LETTIE G. HOWARD, named for the daughter of Captain Fred Howard, began fishing the banks off the coasts of...

Hello friends, as I already wrote in my first post back in July 28, 2024, I built three cardboard model ships. I have already shown you two of them. But health and technical problems have delayed me from presenting you the third ship model. Today I want to introduce it to you. I wanted it to be...

M/N YAVARI 1870, Scratch, Scale 1:100 (COMPLETE BUILD) After making several sailing boats, I decided to build another ship that also made the history of Peru, and here I am referring to the YAVARI, which to date is the oldest operating steamship in Peru, currently moored in the port of Puno...

Hengst JAN KORNEEL, Scratch build, 1:36 scale (Completed) At the same time as another project, I started to prepare a fishing boat with side boards and origin in the Netherlands; like the ones I have undertaken, I prefer to develop medium or small sized vessels, that are unique, or that have...

Vietnamese Junk, Scratch built, Scale 1:75 (COMPLETED) Now, I present something different, a junk (Dzonka, Junk, Junco), the model and the work do not require great techniques, but I thought it was fun to make a boat with lines different from the western ones. Vietnamese Junk (Part 1 of 2) The...

One of the prettiest mahogany speed boats of the 50’s IMO is the Sea Maid. Sterling put out a kit back in the day but I never got hold of one. I was really impressed when I saw that Mack Products was going to do a kit of an 18 ft Sea Maid. It is part of the Legend series. I bought the new...

This model is a 1/6th scale Gar Wood design. Apparently several were built for the rich folks to race each other. The boats all had names that started with “Miss”. The original boat is at the Clayton museum in New York. The kit is from Mack Products Legend series. I originally intended a...

Part 1 of 2 In various information collected on the Internet, the “Tartane” is shown as a sharp-prowed boat, with a rigging with lateen sails and a rudder no deeper than the keel, at first glance different from the Chioggiotta Tartane which is a boat of Venetian origin used until the end of the...

This will be my next project. Thank you to all who wish to follow.

In 1984 John Fryant published a build article in Ships in Scale for a solar powered stern wheel paddle boat. The scale was 1/16. I think it turns out to be 3/4=1ft. I immediately sent off for the plans and started building. The hull was a block of foam that was easy to carve and shape. As...

To date, I have shown some scale models of my making. They are not clippers, liner ships or frigates, rather they are fishing boats or small merchant ships. In my opinion, each small boat is very unique, from its history, the shape of the hull, the rigging, the sails, its colors, the seas in...

Like most boat builders I like to collect plans for models that I might build someday. I had plans to a Hacker design from the 1920’s. The boat was 28 ft long and he named her Irene. Old John L knew how to design a boat. In 2013 I decided to get the plans enlarged and get out my drafting...

I already started with her a few weeks ago, so I'll have to summarise what's what up till now. First: this is a steep learning curve for me. I started designing in CAD (Fusion) AND started 3D printing AND started scratch building. Oh well. I have some experience in reaching unattainable goals...

Yep, another small fishig boat .... Saint Patrick, Húicéir (irish) o Galway Hooker (Part 1) 1 Preface I finished the “Reines des Fleurs” and slowly started another model that I had pre-cut, it has the size and similarities of the “Cariad” pilot cutter that I made a few years ago, and also a...

1. Introduction A few weeks ago I finished a model of a Peruvian fishing boat from the 70's and I rested from the hustle and bustle of this revealing hobby. I took the opportunity to read a couple of books and one of them excited me, it is called “Los barcos se pierden en Tierra (Boats get lost...