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The Finest Hours movie for marine enthusiasts

The Finest Hours

One of the first movies of 2016, Finest Hours is a very promising movie for model ship builders, or any maritime or ship enthusiast. It is another true story taken to the screen, which...

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The End of Bon Voyage by Jared Muralt

While passing time on bus, i came across a talented artist “Jared Muralt” on instagram. His last book “The End of Bon Voyage” is a good piece that you might be interested, since the...

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Ertuğrul 1890 (Kainan 1890)

Ertuğrul 1890 is based on true stories, the movie is basicly showing the historic relationship between Japan and Turkey with two tragic events. The first story is about the frigate Ertuğrul, the ship which...

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How the ships fade away…

I don’t remember when was the last time i wrote here. Since my flight training started, i barely had opportunity and felt bad about it. If only today, i could tell better things to you…...

Story of a wreck: Ahsen

While i was walking in my hometown Ereğli, i came across the remains of a ship which was a familiar sight of the town once. So i decided to tell her story as far...

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Ciechanow

Looking for model dry cargo ship plans? So here we have a great plan set, Ciechanow. She was built in 1970 by Bulyard Shipbuilding Industry in Varna, Bulgaria. She was renamed as Unity VI...

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Tovarisch

Today we add some more sails to our model tall ship plans with 4 masted barque “Tovarisch”. Tovarisch means Comrade in Russian, but the ships carreer did not start with this name. The ship...

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The “Tugboat Mailbox”

Model ship builders will love this! This beautiful mailbox is located in Port Maitland, Ontario Canada. Powells Shipyard definitely knows the way to customize! If you want to contact us, we can not provide...