The modeller

… several years ago an eight-year-old child, using paper, toothpicks and cellotape, tools available at a house with their physical limitations, tried to make little models of ships turning phantasy into practice.

Later to these materials were added also solid wood, moil and sandpaper. Along with the passing of time, knowledge, experience and equipment managed to give shape to professional ship models putting historical accuracy was the first priority and taking advantage of all the available information that could be extracted from Greek and foreign sources.

Nowadays after 35 years of work, the construction and repair of ship models became the main day activity. Specialist literature, paintings, drafts and ship drawings along together with the adequate timber and a high-quality mechanic equipment, I am trying to make the best possible ship models I can. In these artifacts, there is no qualitative limit. Each ship model means a new experience; that being the modelist’s reward.

Each model is not only a wooden creation, but it has to offer at the same time an authentic and didactic image of the past.

Nikos Aliprantis

Assembling the models

The construction of models is being made after long and thorough study and historical research that is related to the subject sources in Greece and abroad, in order to approach the historical truth as much as possible.

The main features of the models should be:

the historical truth,

the aesthetic result, and

durability through time.

The wood used to build them is of excellent quality with appropriate antifungal and repellent treatment (beech, walnut, mahogany, anigre, oak, lime etc.)

Paints and glues used, are perfectly compatible for interiors and indoors spaces.

Particular attention is also given to the construction of the sails which are made with excellent quality cloths, 100% cotton, with much care and precision at the seams in accordance with the technique in each era.

Models should be placed in a transparent cover in order to protect them from dust. You should also avoid placing them near intense heat sources.