Model Ships and Sources for Model Makers at TradBoat

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Associations
Associations concerned with ship model making. Scroll down for details. We will be happy to include your Association provided that its members are interested in traditional boats or historic ship models including warship models. E-mail: info@tradboat.co.uk

Thames Sailing Barge Special Photo Collection
Collections of detail photographs for use by model makers. Click here. You are welcome to download any of these for your own use, but they may not be published without the permission of TradBoat.

Model Makers' Resources - Plans, Books etc.
Resources for model makers, sources for drawings, information about prototypes, something about marine archaeology, links with friends overseas. Click here

Restored and Replica Ships

Prototype restored and replica ships are shown at Maritime Museums . and in the Maritime Heritage Section

Associations

Association of Model Barge Owners - AMBO
Model Thames Barge Sailing Championships - (MTBSC)

Turn to our special Thames Barge Modelling Source Page by clicking here

Ships in Bottles

Click here for a ships-in-bottles Source Page

The Fellowship of Model Shipwrights

Contact: Harry Cheng
Beddau
Mid-Glamorgan
S Wales CF38 2DE
Web: http://mr.sawblade.tripod.com/FMS

This organisation is non-territorial and open to those who are interested in all aspects of ship modelling and the preservation of ships The Fellowship has excellent links with maritime museums. It is a journal based society, has no club house and instead communicates with its members on a world wide basis (as far afield as California and New Zealand, Ed.) by way of the internet, a quarterly journal and intermediate news letters. The fellowship is an excellent source and has members of all standards from beginners to museum quality. Enquiries should be addressed to Harry Cheng. Membership in the UK costs £7.50. Overseas members should check with Mr Cheng for conversation rates from their own countries,.

Scale Sailing Association
Contact: Mike Taylor
14 Palace Road
Crouch End
London N8 8QJ UK
Website: www.scalesailing.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Email: scale.sailing@blueyonder.co.uk

An Association of like minded people who share an enthusiasm for the research and building of scale model sailing ships. Members build everything from warships to Thames Barges. Of course you don't need to be an expert to join - Scale Sail is always ready with constructive advice and perhaps the odd bit of research, maybe knowing where to get that plan you are after. There are members who may have tackled a similar project and if so we can you pair you up - a way of learning the short cuts at first hand.

There are many sailing meetings throughout the the sailing season. Subscription £6.50 per year (overseas members please add £1.00), three magazines a year and a series of how-to booklets now coming on line

The Society of Model Shipwrights Contact: Peter Rogers, Secretary 5 Lodge Crescent Orpington Kent BR6 0QER Tel: 01689 827213
A society devoted to building model ships (a wide range of model ships) in strict scale, both power and sail, and both static as "Charles" above, and sailing, example, the Brig "Irene" by Peter Rogers The society has between 80 and 100 members many of them in the South East of England and attending regular monthly meetings but others as far afield as Australia and Japan. Beginners are always welcome, the subs are currently (August 98) about £10.00 for UK members, and a there is a regular newsletter.

Thames Sailing Barge Photo Collection

These are photographs of Thames Sailing Barges taken to assist model makers with authentic detailing. Where possible the barge and its location have been named. Feel free to download what you need, but please do not use for publication without consulting us at info@tradboat.co.uk We are happy for suitably captioned shots to be used free of charge in club magazines and newsletters. All photos Charles Smith unless otherwise captioned.

Click here to access the collection

Model Makers Sources

Clyde Puffers:
See "The Clyde Puffer" by Dan McDonald
and "The Light in the Glens" by Len Paterson

Turn to our Clyde Puffers & VICs Source page for details of plans available, kits, and illustrations of existing vessels by clicking here

Ship Plans
The National Maritime Museum, Greenwich has "the single largest collection of original drawings in the world", from the early 18th Century to date. The collection is in two parts:

The Admiralty Collections
Comprising    The Sailing Navy 1700-1835
                      The Victorian navy 1835 - 1906
                      The Modern Navy 1906-1960's

The Merchant Collections
Comprising    Shipbuilders in the collection
                      Owners
                      Designers and Marine Workers
and                The "Artifical" Collection (Mostly traditional working craft)

To access the collection:
Photocopies are available by post.   The collection is held at one of the NMM's outstations, and it is possible to visit the plans archive by appointment.
Contacts:
Tel:     +44 (0)20 8855 1647
Fax:    +44 (0)20 8317 0263
Email: PlansandPhotos@nmm.ac.uk
By post: (they will need details, ship's name, date of launch etc)
The Ship Plans Section, National Maritime Museum
Greenwich, London SE10 9NF

Thames Barges

Turn to our special Thames Barge Modelling Source Page by clicking here