Model Ship Building Portal & Modellers Shop, Photo Etching, Maritime Photo Galleries http://www.boatmodelling.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:36:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.boatmodelling.com/images/M_images/boatmodelling_small.gif http://www.boatmodelling.com Model Ship Building Portal & Modellers Shop, Photo Etching, Maritime Photo Galleries http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/87/77/lang,en/ Today I paid my friend Nick a small visit with the camera to get some new shots of his scratch card build of Musashi in scale ….1:100 (around 1/8”) and in that scale the model is 2.63 meters long (8.6 ft)! Musashi was the second and final Yamato class battleship... News - News Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:06:20 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/86/86/lang,en/ We have just added over 20 different sets of brass and aluminium barrels for scale 1:200 and 1:100. Barrels are turned for specific models for example: HMS Prince of Wales (26 barrels), HMS Hood (22 barrels), Admiral Graf Spee (20 barrels), Bismarck (36 barrels), Yamato (39 barrels), USS Iowa (29 barrels)... News - News Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:22:52 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/85/43/lang,en/ Flagship Santa Maria was a larger round-hull ship also called nao. Christopher Columbus himself piloted Santa Maria in 1492. She was a merchant ship between 200-600 tons with length of 75 feet and width 25 feet. Now ShipYard is releasing their 3rd laser cut set with Santa Maria in scale 1:72.... Articles - ShipYard Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:37:12 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/53/56/lang,en/ LATEST! First pictures in the gallery (http://www.boatmodelling.com/component/option,com_zoom/Itemid,13/catid,60/lang,en/). More to come! Now it is certain: The Model Ships Festival (Fest der Modellschiffe) will take place between 28th and 30th March 2008 in Vienna-Hietzing. The exhibition will be hosted at Hietzing district office buildings - Hietzinger Kai 1. The impressive building stands... News - News Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:00:22 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/83/83/lang,en/ BoatModelling.com has now on offer sets of masts for ShipYard’s Santa Leocadia 1777. Of course they can also be used for scratch build from the plans. Masts are beautifully turned from bright birch wood then can be easily stained or oiled depending on used technique. The set consist of all needed masts,... News - News Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:31:14 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/81/82/lang,en/ Go Modelling 2008 - Vienna, February 16-17. IPMS Austria (http://www.ipms.at) has found a great partner and the perfect ambiance for an event like this! Now you can not only admire the skills of modellers from all over Europe and beyond, but our guests will be able to enjoy the magnificent museum as... News - News Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:25:33 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/82/45/lang,en/ Astra28 from papermodels.pl (http://www.papermodels.pl) has recently uploaded links to his zipped pictures of R-17 rescue ship. Most of the pictures show sister unit Powiew based in Ustka. Having Astra's approval now we can show all the pictures in our gallery also! In 2007 Astra28 had a chance to board... Building Reports - Rescue Cutter R-17 Halny Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:19:28 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/79/45/lang,en/ It is time to put some more details about R-17 Halny by Andrew Antosiewicz. The project has been successfully running over last months. What Andrew is doing is absolutely amazing. The amount of details included and beautifully built leaves me simply speechless. So, fibre glass deckhouse described in previous section is... Building Reports - Rescue Cutter R-17 Halny Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:19:20 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/77/43/lang,en/ To complete laser cut card set started with HMS Alert, ShipYard has now prepared its counter part unit - lugger Le Coureur in scale 1:72. Laser cut card boards with all fittings included in the box. Le Coureur was built in 1776 in Dunkirk, two years before next outbreak of war between... Articles - ShipYard Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:57:54 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/75/77/lang,en/ Very hot NEWS! ShipYard started to distribute their latest classical card set Santa Leocadia 1777! After publishing plans of this Spanish 34-gun frigate they decided to also prepare classical set! For some modellers that can be quite a thrill to build card model and then enhance it even more using the plans! Scale 1:96 or 1/8” with... News - News Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:47:02 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/76/45/lang,en/ It has been already so long?! Five months since last update. Sorry. Well, let’s write couple of words about my galleon build progress. Basically since April I moved ahead in different areas but I still have not closed the deck as such as I had been planning. I kept experimenting with guns casting, with gratings and... Building Reports - Galleon Wodnik Sun, 30 Sep 2007 10:53:51 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/74/78/lang,en/ BoatModelling.com went this morning to Neulengbach to see the U-Boots / submarines during 6th International Subregatta in Neulengbach, Austria. Event organized by Association of Model-Submariners Austria (IG-Modell U-Boote Austria (http://www.igu-austria.org/)). Neulengbach is located 40 minutes drive west from Vienna. Nice sunny weather, not to hot and not too cold. Very pleasant picnic... News - News Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:31:17 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/61/65/lang,en/ BoatModelling.com has now on offer new set of very popular rescue cutter, ship R17, sometimes referred as Halny Type. This Polish built boat, cutter has been built as a model in hundreds throughout the world and still remains to be very popular topic. R-17s were used in Poland and in... News - News Mon, 21 May 2007 13:32:14 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/73/79/lang,en/ After a week or so I am back from Tczew in Poland, where I attended Polish internet forum Koga (http://www.koga.net.pl) meeting. This was second annual meeting and this time well over twenty participants from all over Poland showed up and what is very important to mention also Robbox from Model... News - News Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:44:22 +0100 http://www.boatmodelling.com/content/view/71/45/lang,en/ Hello Modellers!!! Summer holidays have started, but I have not stopped working on my model. On the contrary, now I will have more time for my hobby and I wanted to show what is the progress. Here are the pictures: First three pictures show how I was attaching first sail to my... Building Reports - HMS Alert 1777 Sun, 15 Jul 2007 12:38:00 +0100