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Useful Websites for Ship Modelers

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There is a wealth of information available that could be extremely useful to ship modelers, be it kit, scratch, or something in between.
I hope the following will be found useful and that other members will share their favorite sources that we can all access. The below are a few on my own list but I hope others will post a lot more that they find useful.
Allan

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ship_plans_of_the_Royal_Museums_Greenwich 3000 contemporary ship plans, 800 of which are high resolution.
2. https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections Royal Museum Greenwich collection of ontemporary ships plans (low resolution for free), paintings, contracts, and more.
3. https://maritime.org/doc/steel/ David Steels book on rigging and seamanship.
4. https://www.sdshipmodelersguild.org/documents/presentations/APrimerOnPlanking.pdf Planking tutorial by David Antscherl
5. https://maritime.org/doc/luce/index.php Text book on seamanship 1891
6. https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37484/1/COUSINS, Thomas_M.Res_2022.pdf Rigging treatice
7. https://anadventureinawesome.com/2021/01/24/photographing-scale-models/ Photographing models
8. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57705/57705-h/57705-h.htm Falconer. Especially useful for maritime definitions, both English as well as French sea terms.
 
AllanKP69 said:
There is a wealth of information available that could be extremely useful to ship modelers, be it kit, scratch, or something in between.
I hope the following will be found useful and that other members will share their favorite sources that we can all access. The below are a few on my own list but I hope others will post a lot more that they find useful.
Allan

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ship_plans_of_the_Royal_Museums_Greenwich 3000 contemporary ship plans, 800 of which are high resolution.
2. https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections Royal Museum Greenwich collection of ontemporary ships plans (low resolution for free), paintings, contracts, and more.
3. https://maritime.org/doc/steel/ David Steels book on rigging and seamanship.
4. https://www.sdshipmodelersguild.org/documents/presentations/APrimerOnPlanking.pdf Planking tutorial by David Antscherl
5. https://maritime.org/doc/luce/index.php Text book on seamanship 1891
6. https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37484/1/COUSINS, Thomas_M.Res_2022.pdf Rigging treatice
7. https://anadventureinawesome.com/2021/01/24/photographing-scale-models/ Photographing models
8. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57705/57705-h/57705-h.htm Falconer. Especially useful for maritime definitions, both English as well as French sea terms.
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Very useful
Thanks for sharing Allan
 
AllanKP69 said:
There is a wealth of information available that could be extremely useful to ship modelers, be it kit, scratch, or something in between.
I hope the following will be found useful and that other members will share their favorite sources that we can all access. The below are a few on my own list but I hope others will post a lot more that they find useful.
Allan

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ship_plans_of_the_Royal_Museums_Greenwich 3000 contemporary ship plans, 800 of which are high resolution.
2. https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections Royal Museum Greenwich collection of ontemporary ships plans (low resolution for free), paintings, contracts, and more.
3. https://maritime.org/doc/steel/ David Steels book on rigging and seamanship.
4. https://www.sdshipmodelersguild.org/documents/presentations/APrimerOnPlanking.pdf Planking tutorial by David Antscherl
5. https://maritime.org/doc/luce/index.php Text book on seamanship 1891
6. https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37484/1/COUSINS, Thomas_M.Res_2022.pdf Rigging treatice
7. https://anadventureinawesome.com/2021/01/24/photographing-scale-models/ Photographing models
8. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57705/57705-h/57705-h.htm Falconer. Especially useful for maritime definitions, both English as well as French sea terms.
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Thanks for taking the time to post these!
 
My pleasure to post these. I know there are other members with favorites and hope they post them.
Allan
 
AllanKP69 said:
There is a wealth of information available that could be extremely useful to ship modelers, be it kit, scratch, or something in between.
I hope the following will be found useful and that other members will share their favorite sources that we can all access. The below are a few on my own list but I hope others will post a lot more that they find useful.
Allan

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ship_plans_of_the_Royal_Museums_Greenwich 3000 contemporary ship plans, 800 of which are high resolution.
2. https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections Royal Museum Greenwich collection of ontemporary ships plans (low resolution for free), paintings, contracts, and more.
3. https://maritime.org/doc/steel/ David Steels book on rigging and seamanship.
4. https://www.sdshipmodelersguild.org/documents/presentations/APrimerOnPlanking.pdf Planking tutorial by David Antscherl
5. https://maritime.org/doc/luce/index.php Text book on seamanship 1891
6. https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/37484/1/COUSINS, Thomas_M.Res_2022.pdf Rigging treatice
7. https://anadventureinawesome.com/2021/01/24/photographing-scale-models/ Photographing models
8. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57705/57705-h/57705-h.htm Falconer. Especially useful for maritime definitions, both English as well as French sea terms.
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Brilliant, thank you Allan. Days if not weeks of fabulous reading here
 
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