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Free ship plans
Posted by Model Monkey on Monday, December 13, 2021 9:25 AM
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.
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    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Monday, December 13, 2021 9:58 AM

Thank you Steve. I'll go check it out Big Smile

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

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Posted by ikar01 on Monday, December 13, 2021 10:45 AM

Thanks for the information, I sense more detailing or modification possibilities ahead.

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Posted by CapnMac82 on Monday, December 13, 2021 1:50 PM

Thank you.  You continue to be a valueable and significant resource to our hobby.

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    February 2018
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Posted by Model Monkey on Monday, December 13, 2021 6:35 PM

Thank you, fellas!

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Posted by Space Ranger on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 10:45 AM

Link not working.

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Posted by Model Monkey on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 11:16 AM

Please try again or click the blue link below.

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    June 2021
Posted by rocketman2000 on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 12:12 PM

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. 

 

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by Space Ranger on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 1:27 PM

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?

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    February 2018
  • From: North Carolina, USA
Posted by Model Monkey on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 1:40 PM

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!

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    January 2015
Posted by TheMongoose on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 6:41 PM

Awesome, another great Model Monkey value!

In the pattern: Scale Shipyard's 1/48 Balao Class Sub! leaning out the list...NOT! Ha, added to it again - Viper MkVii, 1/32 THUD & F-15J plus a weekend madness build!

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    January 2021
Posted by PFJN2 on Tuesday, December 14, 2021 8:43 PM

Hi,

Thank you for providing thisinformation.  I have dowloaded the files for a couple of ships.  Smile

Pat

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    January 2020
Posted by Space Ranger on Wednesday, December 15, 2021 8:05 AM

Model Monkey

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!

 

Thanks for clarifying that.

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    December 2021
Posted by RainDancer on Friday, December 17, 2021 6:50 PM

 

 Thank you so much.  

Ex M60A3 Tanker, Retired Firefighter and Fun at Parties. 

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    February 2018
  • From: North Carolina, USA
Posted by Model Monkey on Friday, December 17, 2021 8:13 PM

You are all very welcome!

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