About us

My friends and me are ship model lovers in the Ruhr area of western Germany. We build wooden ship models and sell them from time to time, as no house is big enough to accommodate all the ships that true lovers continue to make. Two models which I built are shown on this website. They are the SCOTTISH MAID, a 1839 schooner, and the yacht BRITANNIA, a symbol of royal sailing.  Besides, I trade ship models by this internet gallery.

All our model ships to buy are beautiful decorative pieces up to first-class museum quality. All the ship models are unique pieces made by experienced model builders. There is only the one piece shown in the website available for sale. Here you find how to order a ship model and how the transport can be arranged.

How do we compare to other ship model sellers?

The more expensive ship models, which show more details than our models, were made in thousands of working hours. Some model makers such as Olivier Bello build them like the former English Admiralty Board models, leaving one side unplanked and the framing open to inspection.

The cheaper models usually show fewer details and poor handicraftship. Most of them are mass-produced in China, Vietnam or Mauritius. The dealers show only small pictures of the models in their websites or brochures. Otherwise you would immediately recognize the lower quality of workmanship.

Quality ship models

We show our scale models with many detailed photos and close views in this gallery. You can exactly see the quality which you buy from us. If you click on one of these photos you will get that photo in high resolution.

Do you want to see the ship models by yourself? I always have some models in stock in a small showroom a short walk from my home.

In recent years some of the models were shown at the Intermodellbau Fair at Dortmund, Germany, in April each year.

Eight ship models we delivered to the  Morada Seaside Resort at Kuehlungsborn near Rostock on the Baltic coast. It is a beautiful hotel directly at the Baltic Sea beach, and our models are on display in the passage to the restaurant.

And that is me, cleaning a model of HMS Prince before working on its restoration,

and on a sailing trip on the Ijsselmeer in Holland

Please contact me, if you have any questions.