Links to local clubs and Ship Modeling groups
Links to websites useful for shipmodelers. These are places you might find tools, kits, parts, plans or raw materials.
- Bluejacket Ship Crafters
- BlueJacket Shipcrafters, Inc. is the oldest model ship and model boat company in the US (in continuous operation since 1905). Specializing in the design and manufacture of fine wooden model kits, custom built models, antique restorations/repairs, and model ship fittings.
- Micromark
- Micromark is a source for hard-to-find mini tools and model building supplies.
- Tower Hobbies
- Radio equipment, some boat models.
- Loyalhanna Dockyard
- Kits, parts, plans, etc.
- K&S Precision Metals
- Brass tube, wire, rod, etc. (Wholesale company site with links to distributors).
- Smithsonian Ship Plans
- The Smithsonian's collection of watercraft plans, maintained by the History of Technology Division of the National Museum of American History, is a valuable resource for the maritime historian, the student of naval architecture, other scholars, the model builder, and craftspeople.
- Royal Museums Greenwich
- Ship plans from the Royal Museum in England.
- Building Model Boats
- A web site with some free boat model plans.