2026

So what’s up doc ? This year had been interesting to day the least in terms of naval news, ending with the “trump class battleship” that had the naval websphere in ebullition. Wether it’s new steam of traduced later into reality we will see. This year also ended with the largest combined naval exercizes of … Read more

3D Naval Repository

3D repository The fast way: Embedding ships Bodekull (The Dalarö wreck) by SWEDISH NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUMS on Sketchfab The Gresham Ship – Stoney Cove, Feb 2013 by Maritime Archaeology on Sketchfab //sketchfab.com/3d-models/sentoku-i-400-aafc106209654ca68389bc1f5bccd5d4 //sketchfab.com/3d-models/110ft-sc-497-1945-c1ab73bf367d4aee9548aa0f9637b95b //sketchfab.com/3d-models/uc-65-german-u-boat-wwi-1f57754c940942efaa84a7dc75593e30 //sketchfab.com/3d-models/elco-77ft-pt-59-91e29ce9ecb641feb7c00e3e3d1f51b5 //sketchfab.com/Angel_Arrow/collections/war-thunder-naval For 3D artists: Virtual diorama Do you you create 3D models ? Did you know you can find some … Read more

WebVR Battleship Display

For 3D artists Do you you create 3D models ? Did you know you can find some extra exposure, on a growing website with a targeted audience dedicated to ships ? Naval Encyclopedia now offers you a first class display experience, richer, better, than the confined space of a sketchfab embed: A dedicated VR page … Read more

Modeller’s Corner: Ships model Kits

Classic ships Model Kits (injected) In all the recent ships posts (from 2021 onwards) you will find systematically a “modeller’s corner” after the books/links section. I’m currently using scalemates, which huge database is quite handy to find old brands and unusual scales. It’s the archive.org or model kits. For each ship, i’ll try to pick … Read more

Naval History

An intro to naval history Prehistoric boats, dugout, canoe rafts, reed boats, skin boats. The Polynesians pioneers From skinboats to …flying ships From prehistoric times, when probably someone falling into a torrent hang on a trunk and discover a much faster way to travel, or later go fishing on improvised rafts, man used the sea … Read more