Pre-Dreadnought Era

A 1/1250 scale model of HMS Goliath, a Canopus class battleship in overall grey for 1902 onwards.

A 1/1250 scale metal model of HMS Duncan a pre-Dreadnought battleship by Navis Neptun 116N

Expecting to fight at close range, the Germans opted for the lighter, faster-firing 240mm main guns. By the start of WW1, they were hopelessly outclassed and were disarmed and hulked in 1916.

A 1/1250 scale second-hand model of Belgrano an Argentine armoured cruiser by Navis Neptun 230A modified. This excellent model has been re-fitted with 2x10 inch guns and been re-painted in medium grey from a model of Nisshin, see photograph.

Newly upgraded model of  a destroyer, built in Britain by Yarrow, which fought in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904/5. There were two ships in this class.

The Spidernavy "Shah" is a completely new venture for Johann Ottmann, the man who made the fully-rigged versions of Navis Neptun ship models. The hull is cast from a 3-D printed master model and it is hoped that a fully rigged and cased version of this ship model will be produced in due course. In the meantime, a standard, handmade version has been produced for those who like something different.

a 1/1250 scale waterline model of the first propeller driven gunboat in the world. Von der Tann was built at Kiel for the Duchies of Scheswig & Holstien and fought in the first Scheswig War against Denmark with some success. In 1853, she was taken over by the Danish Navy and decommissioned and scrapped in 1862. Capable of 6kt under steam power, Von der Tann was armed with 2x 64 pdr guns and 3 smaller howitzers. 

This is a 1/1250 model of a Habich-class colonial gun boat, SMS Moewe. Moewe was based at Tsingtau and outlasted her sisters (Habich & Adler) despite being hulked and sold in 1910.

After the large Drake-class, the Royal Navy opted for smaller armoured cruisers, built in quantity and the Monmouth class was the result. Overwhelmed off the west coast of Chile at Coronel, by the German armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau,  Monmouth was finished off by Nurnburg a little later in the evening. The Battle of the Falklands was ahead!

A 1/1250 scale metal model of Beowulf, a coast defence ship designed before the German navy had blue water ambitions, members of this class were still afloat through WW1. Hagen & Aegir are also members of this class but in different configurations following refits.

New for 2012! An "N" model of a US battleship in white and buff livery.

New model for 2011! There were 2 sisterships and all were scrapped in 1920.

A 1/1250 scale metal model of Shirataka, a Japanese torpedo boat in service in the 1900s.

Kotaka is a Japanese torpedo boat of a class which took part in the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. This fine model is in 1/1250 scale where 100ft on the ship is a little under 1in on the model.

A small cruiser of the Montgomery class of 1893-4 (Marblehead, C-11, was the third) in the Great White Fleet livery of white and buff. During their first ten years they were extensively used for showing the flag and gun boat diplomacy from China to Venezuela. Two of them survived WW1 in auxilliary roles.

A 1/1250 scale model of the first ironclad designed and built in Germany. She was officially classed as an armoured corvette (= cruiser). After a short period of overseas service she became a guard ship and was hulked in 1888 because of corrosion in her iron hull. She was used for training stokers until withdrawn and broken up in 1906. 

This is a fully-finished and painted 1/1250 scale model of the German light cruiser, Prinzess Wilhelm, named after the wife of Prinz Wilhelm, later to become Kaiser Wilhelm II.