Digital Plans, Virtual Watercraft, Marine Art & Blog

Unexpected

Although it was very early on in my Merchant Navy career, more than 30 years ago now that I started realising humanity and the Shipping Industry particularly where on the wrong tack with regards to leaving some leeway for future generations, I didn't actually expect to see the day that

Models

About Models

After almost a year working on sorting my ship plans collection, improving my 3D model workflow & developing this website I have finally had time to test a new procedure for turning a scanned lines plan into fair and accurate hull shapes. I first started out doing this using SubDivision

Plans

About plans

Nowadays drawings are a requirement to build a commercial ship. This wasn't always the case but in the 18th century the first naval engineers, now referred to as Naval Architects started devising tools & procedures to initially represent & eventually completely design ships on paper. In 1768 Frederik Henrik af

Art

The Gold Ship

Is creating a ship's lines plan an art, science, craft, skill or just the result of experience based testing? For thousands of years sailing vessels had a monopoly on overseas travel & transport. There was simply no other means to get across the sea to visit foreign shores. With zero

Blog

About 3Dshipmodels.com

In less than a month it will be a year ago I sailed from my hometown Groningen, the Netherlands to Bizkaia, Euskal Herria. That little country in the North East of Spain most people never heard off. The pandemic was the perfect excuse to start work on making my backup