Nautical Research Journal


Types of ship and boat models By Robbie Zielemans


A year or so back, my wife and I had a chat about downscaling our house. T at made me think: I build my models using the scratch-build technique. Due to the scale I prefer, I need some workshop space for the model itself and the tools. T e fi rst thing I thought was, OK, just use a diff erent scale so that the models will be smaller and then I will only need a smaller space. Aſt er thinking through this idea, I realised it is not that simple. At that point I decided to have a look at what I can do in order to keep on building ship models and use a smaller space and scale down on the tools I need.


I started doing some research and got a surprise when I realized how many options there are.


1: Plastic When I think of plastic models, my mind immediately goes to the kits that most of us started with, the small kits that our parents bought us at the local toy shop. Now, depending on skill level, one can purchase larger, historically correct models with more detail. (Figure 1) T ese kits oſt en come with the decals necessary. With larger models, the modeler can buy fi ner aſt ermarket detail sets from hobby companies to make the model more historically accurate. Although most of these models are issued in military gray, they can easily be painted in appropriate colors.


T e more sophisticated recent kits oſt en come with photo-etched detail parts included.


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1. Plastic kit for those of a skill level of 5. All images courtesy of the author.


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