Ship Modelers

We had a nautiloid moment here at SMN, when we realised that good models of Jules Verne’s fictional Nautilus are far easier to get hold of than the US Navy vessel. And of the Verne subs, few are better than this one, from Oregon-based Total Immersion. Read the rest of this entry »

Santisima Trinidad Spain, 1805. 140-gun battleship. Scale 1:96. Sizes: length 1100 mm, height 810 mm. Read the rest of this entry »

Royal Louis France, 1780. 120-gun battleship. Scale 1:90. Sizes: length 1080 mm, height 830 mm. Read the rest of this entry »

Royal Sovereign Great Britain, 1805. 100-gun battleship. Scale 1:96. Sizes: length 1110 mm, height 780 mm. Read the rest of this entry »

The Akagi was the Japanese Carrier Force flagship at Midway, where she was attached at 10:26 on June 4 by dive-bombers from the USS Enterprise. Read the rest of this entry »

On May 27 1967, Jackie and Caroline Kennedy christened the new carrier, some four years after John F. Kennedy’s assassination in Dallas, Texas. The ship (aka ‘Big John’) was basically a Kitty Hawk-class design, but with conventional engines instead of a nuclear power plant. The JFK went on to serve for almost four decades, before being finally decommissioned in 2007. Read the rest of this entry »