Professional ship model building is an amazing mixture of
passion, knowledge, patience and love for the sea. This art
is as old as sea travel and has been passed down over the
centuries!
I'm Lucian Ploias and I was born in a beautiful place called
Transylvania and I love to build model ships!
I was bitten by the shipmodeling bug since I was 10 years old
and since then, I learned to love each detail of its
challenging aspects ! In the beginning it was just a hobby,
but gradually became a vocation. My first commission was in
1990 a French paddle wheeler for the Scheepvaart Museum
in Amsterdam. Since then I completed many models for
maritime museums, private collectors, yacht owners and so
on. Just click the gallery button on the main menu to see
details of my work.
My shop is located at the Vancouver Maritime Museum in
British Columbia. Situated in the Claridge Gallery, the model
shop can be accessed by all museum visitors. Here you will
see new or old models in various stages of completion, or
restoration, miniature tools and a successful mixture of
traditional techniques and modern technology: CAD for
designing new models, a computerised database for ship
plans, an extensive specialised library and many other
reference sources.
All my models are scratch built. I manufacture all parts,
fittings and the artwork within the model shop area, using a
succesuful blend of traditional techniques and modern
materials. My goal is to preserve this art as it was long ago:
Grace and Precision in Miniature!
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