Happy to announce official US Navy and a few Royal Navy shipyard plans for many popular ships and submarines are now available for free download from the Model Monkey catalog.
Most plans are scans of original US Navy Booklet of General Plans drawings obtained from the US National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland. Some were obtained from the US Department of Transportation. We extend our sincere appreciation to the NARA and US DoT staff and the many generous private researchers who continue to dedicate considerable time, personal resources and effort to preserve and make these plans available to the public and posterity.
These plans are in the public domain and can be downloaded directly from NARA or US DoT. But the NARA collection is vast and difficult for most people to access and search so we have made a selection of NARA and DoT shipyard plans of popular ship modeling subjects easily obtainable from Model Monkey at no cost.
Subjects include US naval ships of the early to mid-20th Century, some drawings of USS Constitution, as well as a Royal Navy Tribal class destroyer, Flower and Castle class corvettes, and an Attacker (Bogue) class escort carrier.
To download drawings from Model Monkey, click the blue link below, choose a subject, e.g. “1/350 scale US Navy Battleships”, go to that catalog page, then choose the plans you want from those listed. Add the plans to your cart as though they were models, then checkout normally. You will be sent links by email to download the drawings at no cost to you.
See the selection of available plans at www.Model-Monkey.com.
Thank you Steve. I’ll go check it out [:D]
Thanks for the information, I sense more detailing or modification possibilities ahead.
Thank you. You continue to be a valueable and significant resource to our hobby.
Thank you, fellas!
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Please try again or click the blue link below.
Several months ago I remembered that there were places online that offered free ship plans. I did a thorough Google search and was amazed at the sites I found- lots of sites with a huge variety of subjects. Google free model ship plans and stay at it for a bit.
Then I remembed that model ships are the oldest genre of model building. Ship modeling has been going on since the middle ages. There were no model kit companies, it was all scratch building. When people other than sailors took up the hobby, there became a market for plans/drawings. People were publishing ship model plans in the eighteenth century.
When I click “Tag: ship plans” I get a message that says “Unable to load results at this time.”
When I click on your URL, I am taken to your catalog page, where I find no link to any ship plans.
What other blue links are there? Could you please just post a direct link to the plans page?
Don’t click the tag, click here: “Catalog of over 3,000 3D-printed products for scale modelers.”
Open the catalog, choose a subject, e.g. “1/350 scale US Navy Battleships”, go to that catalog page, then choose the plans you want from those listed. Add the plans to your cart as though they were models, then checkout normally. You will be sent links by email to download the drawings at no cost to you.
The plans are distrubuted throughout the catalog by subject. There is no single page with all of the plans.
Hope this helps and thanks for your persistence!
Awesome, another great Model Monkey value!
Hi,
Thank you for providing thisinformation. I have dowloaded the files for a couple of ships. [:)]
Pat
Thanks for clarifying that.
Thank you so much.
You are all very welcome!