paper/cardboard

This is my first build and I’ve chosen a paper model to dive into headfirst. I’m using primarily the paper (and lasercut card) components provided in the kit but I’m planning on using wood for some parts depending on how I get on and if I can figure out the planking configuration and etc… I’ve...

Hello, it's high time to show what's new in the "Seahorse" shipyard, because the report of the construction of "Seven Provinces" has already bored everyone. I will start with a few "reservations", because this report was not supposed to exist at all. The model was designed by Tomasz Król and...

Hello everyone, I have started a new project. It is the Russian brig Olimp, a kit from the Russian company Shipworks, in 1/96 scale. The kit looks really good, the building instructions are very well illustrated, especially for the rigging. Some of the parts are laser cut, the rest have to be...

LA BELLE-POULE is an well known old Shipyard kit scaled to 1/96 of this classic French 12-pounder frigat BELLE POULE 1765 showing in her appearance from 1771 on. The modelkit get's 460mm long and does fit to my desk very well. Yesterday night I found the First time to dir in the Kirchen me and...

Hi, let me introduce you to the recently created Polish publishing house "Seahorse" dealing with the design of cardboard models of sailing ships. It was created "naturally" after fifteen years of designing and building cardboard sailing ships for various other publishers. So it's time to start...

The Shipyard HMS Alert, in scale 1/72, just arrived from Ages of Sail, kit # ZL:001. It looks like the only item that wasn't included was the glue. Everything else was, rigging lines, cannons, blocks, paint brushes and paints you name it...even directions! I have on hand some Gorilla glue and...

Seahorse is a Polish editioner of card models. Their Leudo is a medival boat that was used until mid XXth century under sail in the Mediterranean Sea. The Legurian coast - between Monacco and Pisa. Between 1880 and 1930 was the pike of the their development. The boats were between 15-16 meters...

Hello friends, after an big change in my life I do now find some time for modelbuilding again under changed circumstances. As my ship yard is in removal boxes I decided to build something small. And due to this I looked for a small ship in a small scale - and was able to find it: HMS...

I couldn't wait to get this one going as unlike the gpm kits it comes with everything you just need glue and knifes. Here's what I got.And a selection of the color pages.And the plans are easier to follow and are more self explanatory.And the pile of card witch saves having to go buy more.

Ahoy! I have just started building of the model NEW MEXICO (BB-40) in scale 1:200. Scratch model. The project is executed by software: Rhinoceros and Corel. The model contains laser cut elements that I designed myself. The Hull frames were made of 1.0 mm thick cardboard.

Hello, I start the design of the model "De Zeven Provincien". This is my second trial, I was not satisfied wit the first attempt. Short and meaningful information about "De Zeven Provincien" once written by Ab Hoving, which I will use as a quote: "... De 7 Provinciën was built in 1665 in...