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The Marea Blog
I write this journal as Marea's Creative Director. It covers the work directly: how a bespoke commission is planned and built, how we reconstruct a vessel when no drawings survive, and how to care for a finished model over the years. Alongside those practical pieces, I write about the ships and the maritime history behind the models we make. New entries are added regularly.
Ai Refloat: Reconstructing a Lost Ship When No Plans Survive
When a vessel has no surviving drawings, we reconstruct her from the evidence that remains. Here is how our in-house Ai Model, naval architecture and museum archives bring a lost ship back to scale.
ReadCaring for a Scale Model: A Conservator's Approach to Everyday Display
Light, heat, dust and humidity are what age a model, not time itself. A practical guide to keeping a fine scale model as crisp as the day it was delivered.
ReadProtecting Your Model When the Temperature Climbs
A heatwave is the one event that can undo years of careful display in a matter of days. The physics of why, and a simple protocol to carry your model through a canicule unharmed.
ReadHow to Judge a Scale Model Up Close
There is a French saying: beautiful from afar, but far from beautiful. A model can pass at arm's length and fall apart under inspection. Here is how to read one properly, the way we build to be read.
ReadHow to commission a scale model of your yacht
From first sketch to white-glove delivery, here is how a bespoke Marea commission unfolds, and what to have ready.
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