Model shipbuilding – our replicas are always ship-shape

For anyone interested in ships, model shipbuilding is a great pleasure, but it calls for patience and huge skills to produce a miniature ship so accurately as to look exactly like the original vessel. Of course there are plenty of fakes out there; people who have haphazardly put together a ship with little regard to accuracy. The enchantment in model shipbuilding is in the passion and ever-increasing desire to produce accurate replicas.

There is no mechanical workmanship about Stephens-Kenau models ....apart from there being a sculptor, they also employ a full time fine artist, and it’s this imaginative artistry that turns their models into something alive and seaworthy. With model shipbuilding, it comes right down to the trick of even mixing the right paint colors, and the application of them as well that makes one model look like a toy and the other like a real ship.

Different shapes and sizes according to their era, model shipbuilding must immediately give one a connection with the sea and all the mysteries that go with a seafaring life, and Model Ship Yard are the only model builders in the world that have perfected the art of shaping sails as if they actually billow in the wind ... old clipper ships, proud mistresses of the sea, or a pirate schooner from the 16th century such as the old caravels with their high bows and sterns and odd lateen yards with flags flying from every masthead.

Model Ship Yard has a deep historical insight into each one of their ships, their rigging, their colors, the flags and arms that were displayed while they sailed because they have an association with most major Maritime Museums around the world, researching all vessels. With their model shipbuilding, their models come to life and will inspire you to read up the inspired stories of great feats and adventures.

The Model Shipyard
Tel: +27 44 691 1531 | Email: model.shipyard@pixie.co.za
Dock of the Bay Studio
Shop16, Ocean View Mall
Mossel Bay, 6506
South Africa

Historic Model Ship Builder