Made To Order Ship Models

I felt like I should share the availability of services to have a custom boat model, custom ship model, custom aircraft model and any related object or hardware made for our customers. We have been building models for 40 years and our experience shows in our work. Come in the store take a look around and if you can't find a model ship you like go to this page: Custom Ship Model Page contact us and get that family heirloom you have always wanted!

We have hundreds of models already assembled and ready to ship out for the holidays! Get yours now while you can! They sail away rather quickly this time of year.

Military Ship Models Made It To The Store!

We finally got all the new builders #ShipModels on the site! Very high quality models for 1/4 of the price it would cost to have one custom built! These model ships add alot of variety to our already large line of boat and ship models. There is not a category for them but if you look around you will spot them. Here is one fine example  One of the many new models.

We have been busy, busy at our shop and at home scouting out new models, new builds and new deals to pass on to our customers. I still have a few vintage models left in our store Some vintage models left

I finally finished my Skip Jack Model done in my spare time. I swear it took me forever!

I love building them but I count on my guys to get them out the door on time for the customer. They do great work and I respect the time it takes to do a good job!

Fifty New Model Ships Coming To Ship Model Super Store

   
     We are adding a line of Ship Models from a new builder and man are they awesome! Take a look at this one Liberty Ship Model

     There are several new models on the site and more to come! These are a great alternative to spending hundreds of hours building them yourself. I have a kit that costs almost as much as this assembled model! I spent a year of my spare time building a Skip Jack for my own collection and I will say I spent a lot of my spare time making it nice and it sure looks good.

     I finally found a builder that does high quality work and has a very wide selection of the model ships we get requests to build. We are thrilled to offer these models for a fraction of the cost to build a kit!

     Come on in and shop around! This link will get you there. Ship Model Super Store

New Ship Model Kits From The Past

A trip to Brooklyn was not on my list of things to do but Dee Dee and I did it! It was an adventure. I have never seen any streets that busy in my life. It was a 700 mile trip one way and the tolls were like $150.00 just to get there. U-Haul was so expensive one way from Brooklyn we toted one with us and took it back loaded. Seriously terrible fuel mileage, I think it took 3 MPG just to pull the trailer. 

The trip was to help out a friend that had hit a bumpy spot in the road and bought a huge collection of #WoodShipModels. The kits we found in his basement were brand new in the box! Amanti, Corell, Mantua, Revell and many, many more. I couldn't carry all the stuff he had. Look for them in my E-Bay store Vintage Model Ships

Get in and get a bid on them beauties they don't come around like these very often and of course if you don't want to build it yourself visit our web site for the finest assembled #shipmodels on the web.

Navy testing Autonomous Fleet

Navy Shows Off Autonomous Fleet

by shipmodelsuperstore

The U.S. Office of Naval Research took to the lower Chesapeake Bay recently to show off their new autonomous unmanned swarming boats.

The unmanned boats, mainly of rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIBs) and other small boats, use a network of software, radar and other sensors to get a collectively “swarm” and perform patrol missions autonomously, with only remote human supervision.

During the demo, unmanned boats were given a large area of open water to patrol. As an unknown vessel entered the area, the group of swarmboats collaboratively determined which patrol boat would quickly approach the unknown vessel, classify it as harmless or suspicious, and communicate with other swarmboats to assist in tracking and trailing the unknown vessel while others continued to patrol the area. During this time, the group of swarmboats provided status updates to the human supervisor.

“This demonstration showed some remarkable advances in autonomous capabilities,” said Cmdr. Luis Molina, military deputy for ONR’s Sea Warfare and Weapons Dept. “While previous work had focused on autonomous protection of high-value ships, this time we were focused on harbor approach defense.”

The ONR calls the autonomy technology Control Architecture for Robotic Agent Command and Sensing, or CARACaS. The ONR says components that make up CARACaS (some are commercial off-the-shelf) are inexpensive compared to the costs of maintaining manned vessels for some of the dull, dirty or dangerous tasks—all of which can be found in the work of harbor approach defense, experts say.

“The U.S. Navy knows our most important asset, without question, is our highly trained military personnel,” said Dr. Robert Brizzolara, the program officer at ONR who oversees the effort. “The autonomy technology we are developing for our Sailors and Marines is versatile enough that it will assist them in performing many different missions, and it will help keep them safer.”

In 2014, ONR completed the first major demonstration of CARACaS technology on the James River in Virginia. At that time, the transportable kit containing the autonomy package was installed on multiple RHIBs, allowing them to operate in sync with other unmanned vessels, swarming to intercept potential enemy ships and escorting naval assets.

The demonstration held this year in October built upon that successful demo. Brizzolara says that substantial additional capability has been added to CARACaS since the 2014 demo, including the ability for multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) to collaborate on task allocation; the development of additional USV behaviors and tactics; and advances in automated vessel classification from imagery.

“This technology allows unmanned Navy ships to overwhelm an adversary,” added Molina. “Its sensors and software enable swarming capability, giving naval warfighters a decisive edge.”

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Dream Ship Victory

Dream Ship Victory announced the beginning of the construction of the impressive new 141 m sailing yacht Dream Symphony designed by Ken Freivokh Design and Dykstra and Partners Naval Architects. On the 9th of February, designers and naval architects met in Amsterdam to give one of the largest yacht projects in the world the go-ahead for construction.

Immediately following the decision to go ahead with construction of the 141m Dream Symphony yacht, DSV’s CEO Valeriy Stepanenko set in motion an impressive construction project at their Dream Ship Victory base on the Aegean Sea. Since her inception, Dream Symphony has surpassed expectations in wind tunnel tests and has received approval to integrate the exciting and unique concept features.

A massive and quite beautiful construction in its own right is the purpose built support structure for the 141m Dream Symphony sailing yacht. In parallel, work is also progressing on both the 55m Sailing yacht Princess Maria and the 43m superyacht Imagination, while the 63m luxury yacht Mikhail S. Vorontsov is nearing completion at its fitting out base at Balk Shipyard in the Netherlands.

When delivered sometime in 2016, Dream Symphony will be a clipper ship for the 21st century. Like the 19th century clippers, Dream Symphony will carry an impressive cloud of sail and like the clippers, it will be built of wood. That alone is remarkable as Dream Symphony is 462’7″ft (141m) long. Historically, wooden vessels could not be built longer than around 300′ long.

Conventional carvel planked wooden construction was just too flexible for longer ships. The longest schooner ever built was the Wyoming, which was 350′ on deck. Despite being heavily strapped with iron, the ship flexed and twisted in heavy seas, opening her seams and requiring constant pumping to keep her dry.

To avoid the traditional limitations of wooden vessels, Dream Symphony is built of glued layers of wood laminates. The whole structure is highly engineered and the product of extensive finite element modeling. The wood/epoxy laminates are also protected by fiberglass on the outer hull surfaces.

Unlike the clipper ships of the 19th century, Dream Symphony is a fore and aft rigged four masted staysail schooner. She will set 5,000 square meters of sail, which is impressive when compared to clippers of the 1800s. The clipper Cutty Sark, for example, set 2,976 square meters of canvas.

Dream Symphony was designed and engineered by Dykstra Naval Architects. The interior and exterior design work was done by Ken Freivokh Design. The yacht in nearing completion at the Dream Ship Victory yard, in Turkey.

When completed Dream Symphony will be the second largest sailing yacht in the world, behind the 147 meter long White Pearl, which is also being delivered in 2016. White Pearl will have three masts and will carry a Dyna-rig, similar to the Maltese Falcon.

Modern sailing mega-yachts differ from the clippers of old in that they are all rich mens’ toys. At the very least, however, they continue to develop the technology of sailing, in advance of the day when commercial sailing ships may again return to the world’s oceans.