New Kits

Endeavour – New America’s Cup kit from OcCre

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Just in is the newest kit to be released from OcCre of Spain, the racing yacht Endeavour, a J-class yacht built for the1934 America’s cup race. She was a steel-hulled design built for Thomas Sopwith, who used his aviation design expertise to ensure the yacht was the most advanced of its day.

 

The new kit is in stock and ready to ship to you for only $149. For more information or to order your’s, check out our listing on Ages of Sail here.

OcCre’s Endeavour is a 1/75 scale wooden ship model kit, measuring just under 21″ long and about 28″ tall.

New Revised RMS Titanic Model Kit for 2025 from Amati

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Just Arrived and In Stock Now at Ages of Sail!

For years, Amati has had one of the best wooden ship model kits of the famed RMS Titanic available. Now, the just released a newly revised version of their 1/250 scale Titanic beauty, and this new model kit is better than ever! Like their original version, this is a plank-on-bulkhead construction wooden ship model kit that measures just over 42″ long, 9″ high, and 5″ wide.

The model now features a more accurate hull shape and new photo-etched parts, replacing the old paper pieces that were used for representing some of the doors and windows. Plus, laser-cut parts are now provided for the second planking layer, making for easier and more accurate assembly.

The shipment of the new kits just arrived and are on sale now for $549. However, if you want to save some money, and you feel the original version is good enough for you, we still have several in stock, at the low price of $450.

Check them both out on Ages of Sail:

New 2025 Version

Previous Version

 

New Battleship Missouri Kit from OcCre

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Attention Ship Modelers and  WWII buffs! Now Hear This! The Mighty Mo, has arrived!

USS Missouri, BB-63, OcCre’s latest Wooden Model Ship Kit, Now Shipping from Ages of Sail

Looking for a really grand project for this Winter? Maybe something without all the rigging work, but lots and lots of fine detail? Check out this monster of a ship model kit. OcCre’s new 1/200 scale Battleship Missouri kit is BIG, measuring just over 53″ long – that’s almost 4-1/2 feet of ship model!

This is an Advanced Level ship model kit that consists of well over 6000 parts and takes an estimated 1400 hours to complete. Are you up to the task?

The kit includes precisely scaled parts in metal and wood, and the large size makes it ideal for creating an accurate display of this famous warship, aboard which the Japanese formally signed their surrender, marking the official end of World War II.

The Mighty Mo, as she was nicknamed, was an Iowa-class battleship, the last battleship commissioned during World War II, and as part of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, saw action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa. She also served two tours of duty during the Korean War before being retired to the reserve fleet in 1955. Then, in 1984, she was reactivated and modernized and saw service in Operation Desert Storm in 1991.

The Missouri was decommissioned in 1992 and became a museum ship at Pearl Harbor, where she can still be seen today.

Build your own masterpiece model. This kit is available to ship and can be yours today!

Take advantage of Ages of Sail’s free domestic shipping offer on all orders of $250 or more.

To learn more details about this kit, including pricing, visit our shop here.

New Kits from Mantua – Available Now

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It’s been a little while since we’ve seen something new come out from our friends at Mantua Model, but they’ve been hard at work developing two new kits. We’re happy to see the new releases and even happier to say that we have them in stock and ready to ship!

Mantua’s new 1/64-scale Mayflower kit.

Mantua’s new 1/40-scale Viking Drakkar

We’ll post more details on these two new Mantua kits in the near future. For now, you can check them out in our online shop by clicking on the links below

Mantua Mayflower

Mantua Viking Drakkar

 

On the Horizon – OcCre’s New Santa Maria Beginner’s Level Kit

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We’re excited to announce the upcoming release of OcCre’s newest kit, a beginner level’s wooden model ship kit of Christopher Columbus’s famous Nao, Santa Maria.

The new Santa Maria is a 1/50-scale model, and measures 530mm, or just under 21″ long when complete. It’s an ideal kit for beginners who are looking for their next challenge. The kit includes laser-cut wooden structural parts, fittings in cast metal, brass, and wood, all rigging cord, pre-sewn set of sails, printed flag and shield art, plus strip woods for the hull and deck planking, dowels for the masts and yards, and full color illustrated instructions.

To aid in construction, OcCre has also prepared a full series of video tutorials. The new kit makes an ideal beginner’s model, but also provides enough challenges to make for a fun project for more advanced modelers as well.

 

This kit will be available very soon. Stay tuned for ordering information!

New Kit Arrival – HM Gun Brig Adder, 1797 from Vanguard Models

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HM Gun Brig Adder, 1797

The Adder is another recent wooden model ship kit release to come out of Christopher Watton’s company Vanguard Models. They are in stock now at Ages of Sail and ready to ship!

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OcCre’s Newest Kit La Belle Poule Now Available!

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Now available and ready to ship to you is the newest wooden ship model kit from OcCre of Spain, the French 60-gun frigate, La Belle Poule. This ship, launched in 1834 is most well known for being the ship that brought Napoleon Bonaparte’s remains from St. Helena, back to France. OcCre’s model kit. The ship, which was said to have been inspired by the design of the American frigate U.S.S. Constitution,  also served in the Crimean War and was in service until 1861.

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HMS Victory Cross Section Kit – New in Stock

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Cross section kits are a great way to do some ship modeling while adding all the small details of the inner workings of the ship, yet in a model that takes up far less time and far less space than a full ship model. Introducing Artesania Latina’s latest kit, the Cross Section of HMS Victory in 1/72 scale.

For a long time, Corel’s cross section model kits of HMS Victory was the only one on the market. While it’s a fine kit, it’s also a very old style of kit with it’s materials and instruction. It was also a smaller sized, 1/98 scale kit.

Artesania Latina recently released a new cross section wooden model kit of HMS Victory in 1/72 scale, which is as big as the largest scale HMS Victory currently available, Caldercraft’s 1/72 scale HMS Victory kit. But with this kit, you can focus on the inner workings of the ship, without the rigging, and without dealing with the complex curves of the full hull shape.

Study the inner workings of the ship as you build the model, adding hammocks, rigging the guns, adding the bilge pumps, beams, deck planks, ballast, and more. The kit even includes a set of figures to help bring your model to life.

Order yours from Ages of Sail today , and don’t forget that this qualifies for free domestic shipping (lower 48 States): https://www.agesofsail.com/product/cross-section-of-hms-victory-artesania-latina-172/

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Santissima Trinidad by Artesania Latina – Available Now

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Ever since Artesania Latina’s return, they’ve been producing some amazing wooden ship model kits: Updated Hermione kit, the new Harvey kit, the Wasa, the Soleil Royal, the Endeavour, and others. Now, they’ve brought us a new and incredibly detailed kit of the flagship of the Spanish Royal Navy, the three-decker ship of the line Santissima Trinidad, which led the Spanish fleet at the battle of Trafalgar.

The Santissima Trinidad is a 1/84 scale kit made for the expert ship modeler. As with all their newer kits, printed instructions are no longer included. However, you can download the instructions with a QR code provided in the kit and can simply download the instructions as needed to your phone, tablet, or computer. You can even print them if you like, but there are so many pages of instructions, you’re probably not going to want to do that.

Take a look at the first set of downloadable instructions – click here. There are 14 more sets of instructions, 100’s of pages, plus plans, parts list, and sail plans. All of which will help you to build this magnificent model.

The kit also includes pre-sewn sails to make that part of model construction simpler. Instructions are also provided for use of Artesania Latina’s optional lighting kit.

The overall length of this model is 1191mm by 905mm tall and 464mm across the longest yardarm (46.9″ long, 35.6″ high, and 18.3″ wide).

There’s so much more to this kit. Check out our listing for full details and pricing.

Artesania Latina’s Santissima Trinidad at Ages of Sail

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A Streetcar Named Desire – New Kit from OcCre

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Just in from OcCre of Spain is this beautiful wooden model kit of the New Orleans Streetcar. Specifically, the Desire, No. 922, made famous by the Tennessee Williams play and the 1951 film adaptation.

This is a 1/24 scale kit (1/2″ to the foot) is a medium difficulty level kit, measuring just about 22″ long when complete. It conforms to the G-gauge 45mm standard, so those with a large layout will find that this should fit right in. Also, the scale, common in the dollhouse world, should make it easy to work it into a large diorama. Just take a look at some of the details of this model kit.

Please note that OcCre’s provided description of the related play and film has a lot of errors in it. We’ll be correcting this info on our website. But, that doesn’t detract from the beauty of this kit. Just take a look at the downloadable instructions, available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AAO0qFV8bpY5sDeMvyIZJZlnGO99ZzvU/view

This is currently the largest of OcCre’s tram kits. If you’re interested in building one, you can find it on our web shop here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product/new-orleans-streetcar-occre-1-24-g-45/

If you’re in the contiguous 48 states, choose the free shipping option, and your order will be sent out via USPS Priority Mail.

Check out the full line of OcCre trams at Ages of Sail here: https://www.agesofsail.com/product-category/occre-trams/

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