Links related to 1/1200 or 1/1250 scale:
Message Boards and News-Groups
1250 Scale Message Board This message board (part of "Steelnavy") is the first stop for
any questions. Regularly visited by a lot of knowledgeable collectors. Highly recommended
Schiffsminiaturen quite new Yahoo!-group in german language.
There are a few boards related to the Triang site (see below), but their traffic is nearly none.
Major References and sites by collectors
1250 Home - the first and still the best reference for this hobby on the www.
This site (run by Paul Jacobs) is part of "Steelnavy" (formerly "Warships"), a large and very recommendable Site about naval modelling.
John M Youngerman is wellknown for his scratchbuild models. Besides the pictures he provided for various modellign sites he a site of his own with good pictures of his models
Jeff Simpson is mainly interested in kits in this scale
Fritz Kermauner has a collection of austrian ships - all of them with a picture on his site
Bob Wiringa has has put a lt of high quality pictures of ships from hist collection online. Very recommended site to have a thorough look on some fine models.
Jonathan D Taft: excellent pictures of ships in his colelction.
Ch. Biedekarken made the famous (now OOP) B/V-line.
A nice site (german language only) about "Meer und mehr". Only a few pictures of models - but these are of outstanding quality.
Thomas Schroeder has a few (but wellmade!) photos of his improved or converted models online
Tim Hudson's page with usefull information about some extinct british lines like Oceanik
Tom Stockton's page about 1/1250 ships (and some other scales too)
J�rgen Hader's small but growing collection
Ian McGeachy has good informations about some of the old-time series (and a few recent too)
Markus W�rfel has his small collection listed (but no pictures yet) on his homepage
Fritz Wagner has a nice site with maritime paintings and 1/1250 shipmodles
Didier Baltes at histofig.com some pictures of sailing ships and early ironclads at a french wargamers site
Periodicals
Hamburger Rundbrief in german language. Made by collectors for collectors.
Retailer
E. Breustedt - now run by the M�ller family. I bought my first models from Erich Breustedt and I am still a satisfied costumer of this company.
Wiedling - on of the largest Retailers in this scale.
Olivers Welt - Oliver Maerten has a shop near Berlin and a lot of pictures on his site.
Galerie Maritim - my favourite. Nice little shop in Hamburg.
Collectio Navalis - Books and ships in Berlin.
Alnavco - US Retailer for Neptun and a few others. Manufacturer of Superior.
Christian Schmidt - Books and shipmodels in Munich.
Otto Schneider - a shop in Kiel. A few pictures online
1250ships.com - Chris Daley: a retailer in the states - with a well made pictorial catalog
- Mike Morse: a retailer in the states - with a well made pictorial catalog (currently unavailable?)
Morning Sunshine Models - George Elder: a quite new retailer in the states - with a well made pictorial catalog
Manufacturers
Albatross - well known and of good quality.
Argos - small (but growing) range of wellmade models.
California Models one of the very few US based manufacturers. Still msall, but growing!
Classic Ships - very fine WL and full hull models. Priced accordingly.
Clydeside - Bill Gilpin's Clydeside models. The old line of one-piece castings is no longer available, but the new (small but growing) line contains multi-part kits of good quality. (comming soon)
CM - extensive Line of fine (mostly) civilian ships by Carlo Marquart.
Conrad Schiffsmodelle - is offering custom made modelships in scales from 1/400 to 1/1250. Their site has a few example-pictures, but offers little information for the collector. That Conrad is (or was?) also continuing the old and wellknown Hansa is not metioned at their site.
Hallmark (purchased by Last Square) makes (besides lines in other scales) the fine lines of Figurehead 1/1250 coastal boats (old link) and Capaero aircraft (old link) in our scale.
GHQ makes a fine series of napoleonic 1/1200 sailing ship kits.
Houston's ships at Historical Miniatures (Stone Mountain Miniatures)
Konishi - a longtime producer in japan. Now direct order possible.
Langton makes fine kits of 1/1200 sailing ship, ancient galley and american civil war ship.
Skytrex purchased the Mercator moulds and continues this famous series.
Navis-Neptun - defined the standard any manufactuer today is compared too.
Navwar (at their own site)
Navwar (at Spiritgames)
Pierhead quite new range of well-made british coastal craft
Alexander Scherbak - makes passenger liners in 1/1250 and 1/1500.
See Vee - limited production of high quality.
Shangri La Ironworks Resin kits from PTDOckyard (David Gregory)
Skytrex has also several Series of Wargamers Kits (ACW,Napoleonics,Steam Navy, Ironclads)
www.spidernavy.de or www.spidernavy.com"Spidernavy"is the nickname for the rigged Neptun models with their own site
Alnavco is now the manufacturer of Superior. That line (originally based on wartime ID models) has much improved now.
Tom Andrews does scratchbuilds, custom painting and similar stuff
Trafalgar (at Spiritgames) - a list of Trafalgar Models. Found at Spiritgames - now available again as
Triang Minic Ships by Charles E B Shave: extensive listing of the historical models and a range of replicas and new models in "Triang"-style
Valiant has a line of galleys and sailing ship kits of teh time of the spanish armada in 1/1200.
Warrior A line of (too large) sailing ships for wargamers
Collectors sites dedicated to a certain Company
Sam Berliner III about Comet/Authenticast
Curtis Arnold has put his collection of Wartime ID models online
Mathias L�dicke has a lot of Wiking ships pictures on his site
Eckart Capitain is building a good site about Wiking models
Wiking Modelle at the "Grinsen" Site, ill maintained for ships
Triang Minic Ships by Charles E B Shave: extensive listing of the historical models and a range of replicas and new models in "Triang"-style
Triang Minic Ships by Laurence Carr
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