Model boat designs

Wooden model boats, with the build logs attached

Model ships and boats built from a kit or plans: plank on frame, plank on bulkhead and solid hull, display models and wooden hulls fitted for radio control. Pick a kit to see every build log of it and how long it really took.

106 wooden model kits from 12 makers are listed here, from a beginner’s solid-hull runabout to a plank-on-frame ship of the line. Every page carries the scale, the length, how the hull goes together and how hard the kit is, and every build log anyone here has kept of it. We do not sell kits or plans; each page links to the maker.

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By kit maker

All Model Shipways 14 Artesania Latina 10 Amati 10 Billing Boats 10 Occre 9 Caldercraft 9 Vanguard Models 9 Bluejacket 9 Dumas 8 Corel 7 Chesapeake Light Craft 6 Midwest 5

By type

All Paddle 2 Row 12 Sail 63 Power 28 Other 1

By skill

Any Beginner 20 Intermediate 36 Advanced 14 Can be fitted for RC 10

By length

Any Under 18″ 18–30″ 30–42″ Over 42″

By construction

Any plank on bulkhead 17 double plank on bulkhead 16 plank on frame 14 stitch and glue 5 plank on frame (laser-cut keel and frames), double planked 4 solid hull 3 plank on frame (laser-cut wood), double planked 1 plank on frame (laser-cut keel, frames and decks), double planked 1 double planked over laser-cut frames 1 plank on frame (laser-cut keel and frames) 1 plank on frame (laser-cut keel and frames), single planked 1 plywood on frame 1

Sort

Most logs Name A–Z Shortest first Longest first

27 boats

Model	Kit maker	Type	Length	Scale
Baltimore Privateer Schooner Grecian 1812	Vanguard Models	Sail	34½″ (88 cm)	1:64
Benjamin W. Latham Grand Banks Schooner	Model Shipways	Sail	33″ (84 cm)	1:48
Bluenose Canadian Schooner	Model Shipways	Sail	32″ (81 cm)	1:64
Chaperon Sternwheel Steamer	Model Shipways	Power	34½″ (88 cm)	1:48
Charles W. Morgan Whale Bark	Model Shipways	Sail	30½″ (78 cm)	1:64
Corsaro II	Corel	Sail	32″ (81 cm)	1:24
HMS Bellona	Corel	Sail	30½″ (77 cm)	1:100
HMS Cruiser	Caldercraft	Sail	33½″ (85 cm)	1:64
HMS Fly	Amati	Sail	32″ (81 cm)	1:64
HMS Granado	Amati	Sail	31½″ (80 cm)	1:64
HMS Snake	Caldercraft	Sail	36″ (91 cm)	1:64
HMS Sphinx 1775	Vanguard Models	Sail	31½″ (80 cm)	1:64
HMS Victory	Corel	Sail	40½″ (104 cm)	1:98
Italian Runabout Riva Aquarama	Amati	Power	34″ (86 cm)	1:10
Nordkap	Billing Boats	Power	32″ (81 cm)	1:50
Revenge 1577	Amati	Sail	35″ (89 cm)	1:64
RMS Titanic	Occre	Power	35½″ (90 cm)	1:300
Rusty the Shrimp Boat	Dumas	Power	36″ (91 cm)	1:24
Santisima Trinidad	Occre	Sail	41½″ (106 cm)	1:90
Seguin Steam Tug	Midwest	Power	39″ (99 cm)	1:32
Smit Rotterdam	Billing Boats	Power	35½″ (90 cm)	1:75
Soleil Royal	Artesania Latina	Sail	37″ (94 cm)	1:72
Syren US Brig 1803	Model Shipways	Sail	33″ (84 cm)	1:64
US Coast Guard 44 ft Motor Lifeboat	Dumas	Power	33″ (84 cm)	1:16
USS Constitution	Bluejacket	Sail	40″ (102 cm)	1:96
Wasa	Corel	Sail	35″ (89 cm)	1:75
Winter Harbor Lobster Boat	Dumas	Power	31″ (79 cm)	1:16

Kit not listed? Start your log and type its name and it gets added to the catalog. Specs here are community-maintained; check them against the designer’s own drawings before you cut anything.