However, the pottery-type ones they sell on ships seem a good buy at the time. However, when I get them home, in the cold light of day, they really are not very detailed.

The 'classic ship collection models' (German) for example, which probably cost 20 times more are incredibly detailed for their size and hand painted.

[ 10-13-2007: Message edited by: Malcolm @ cruisepage ]

Like yourselves, I am also a collector of ships models, ...well only of official company ships models, sold on board...

From Carnival group I have from Chinese resin made type some ships from the following comapnies:-

P & O, Costa, Carnival, HAL...

also from resin made:-

NCL, Crystal Cruises, Thomson Cruises, RCCL...

Made from Albatros + Revell ( not in kit´s) series/German build:

AIDA ships, including the newest AIDAdiva, Peter Deilmann...

Hand made on board in wood by crew members:
Club Med 2

Made in IRON/Stell in Italy:.-

COSTA, MSC,Festival....

These are the ones I have and I know...

It is a shame that nowadays Companies have only a small number of items made with the company logo or the ships name...

As a ships postcards collector nowadays I feel much more difficulties to get "decent" ships postcards than in the past...

I find incredible how they used to do magnificent postcards - from my point of view pure art works-of ships on the beggining of the 20th century in sepia, art postcards like Shoesmith,etc...and nowadays with so many technology available, with a revolution in digital art/photo they do/produce ships postcards with such a basic and bad quality...

As an exampe they share a single image of a RCCL ship for each series changing only the name of the ship in the top of the postcards...

No comments as a ship enthusiast I am...

Most likely they hate ships, and only see them as work and profit for sure... instead of us!

Take care

Ship's Agent / Dimas

[ 10-19-2007: Message edited by: SHIPS AGENT ]

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Originally posted by SHIPS AGENT:
with a revolution in digital art/photo they do/produce ships postcards with such a basic and bad quality...

As an exampe they share a single image of a RCCL ship for each series changing only the name of the ship in the top of the postcards...

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Yes, it such a shame. Norwegian Gem's card is a photoshopped Norwegian Jewel, it's so daft. Other annoyances are when you go on a ship that has had a major refit and the postcards are 'old' predating the refit. OK to sell them if there are new ones about also. but there aren't.

As to those ceramic models bought aboard I have a few. Norwegian Gem, the latest is half the weight of all the others, appears hollow rather than solid, and again it is not Gem, but Norwegian Star painted over. Quite a different vessel and very disappoiting as my 'Norwegian Jewel' is also Norwegian Star without even the hull art painted on. So without having been aboard N Star I have 2 models. They are terrible, but one buys them.

Pam

[ 10-19-2007: Message edited by: PamM ]

The little sticker on the bottom says they were made by Beejay Model Industries, England.

[ 10-19-2007: Message edited by: DAMBROSI ]

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Originally posted by Thad:
I have those two as well Rich, do you know what other were ever made?

Thad

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I don't know all of them; I also have the CP coastal liners PRINCESS PATRICIA and PRINCESS MARGUERITE, purchased on board in 1986.

here are the Passport Models, which were like a model of the month club...

the Montego Models

and then for something a little different, the fabulous wooden Richard Wagner (riwag) models from the 50's and 60's which were sold on the liners and cruise ships then. They are mostly to an approximate 1:1000 scale.

[ 10-19-2007: Message edited by: BigUFan ]

Here is one of the better types, Hamburg from classic-ship.de.

[ 10-20-2007: Message edited by: Malcolm @ cruisepage ]