250 Ton Coaster Cabotage
Scale model cargo ship fleet is growing with a tiny little cute new ship! Cabotage is a Dutch built coaster. I am hoping to find more examples of the legendary Dutch coaster fleet. She...
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Paddle Steamer River Tug Lanna
Lanna is an interesting tugboat to build as a scale model ship. This tugboat has a very shallow draught to operate in shallow waters. Probably she was towing barges through narrow and shallow rivers...
Icebreaker Angara Scale Model Plans
Scale model ship building hobby gets you lost in dusty pages of maritime history sometimes. But i am sure most of us enjoy it. This time we came up with the Russian icebreaker “Angara”...
Dutch Harbour Tug Scale Model by Philip Reardon
I received an e-mail from Philip Reardon which made me very happy. He built the Dutch Harbour Tug and sent pictures. He made slight changes to the funnel and engine room skylight. I think...
Cruiser Aurora
Ships generally have a long life and they witness very important events through their lives. But some become important figures themselves. Just like the Russian cruiser Aurora. Aurora in 2013. Photo taken by Cihan...
City Ferries Racing!
Well, it is never an official race, but there is a little friendly competition between the ferries in rare cases like these. On that beautiful Istanbul afternoon, we were crossing bosphorus from Karaköy to...
A music video on heavy seas
I think most of you already know the tug in the video. “Abeille Bourbon”. But i don’t know the other ships. Maybe you can help us out.
Huge Titanic model from the movie “Raise The Titanic”
There are several movies made based on Titanic’s sad story. Perheps, she might be the most famous ship ever. To shoot the movie ofcourse scale models of the ship were used. Now we will...
Wooden Cargo Steamer (Ferris Design Ships)
For model ship builders, these ships are a unique example of an old tradition showing itself on a modern desin of it’s time. Wooden merchant ships with steam engines! After United States entered world...
Zvezdniy Passenger Ferry
Here we have another passenger ferry model ship plan set. Passenger ferry Zvezdniy was built in 1970, with 3 sister ships (Vladimir Mayakovsky, Turist and Zarya) for Blacksea coastal passenger transport. But this series...
