I have put on this page all the sites I have found on the Bounty, naval modelism, Pitcairn... If you know others address I have not on this page : mail me !
- Links on the Bounty
- Links on naval modelism
- Links on forums webrings
- Links on Museums
- Links on naval architecture
- Links on Tahiti and Pitcairn islands.
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If you are interested in high level naval models, come and see the Gérard Delacroix's site (http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gerard.delacroix/). In french, but you'll find high quality pictures. |
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| Forum (in french, sorry): http://forum.aceboard.net/?login=5500 |
If you have some links mail me .
Paul Lareau's Web Parlour : personal site, extremely complete on the Bounty and Pitcairn island, with numerous links. A MAJOR resource.
Association "Tall Ship Bounty" : this association manage one of the Bounty replica (see the page Ship/Replicas on my site)
The Bounty replica used for the film with Mel Gibson and Anthony Hopkins (see the Ship/Replicas page of this site)
Society for the Preservation of HMS Bounty : canadian association militating in favor of the return of the Marlon Brando movie's replica at Lunenburg. Francis Georges : Bounty model by the father and the son. Take a tour, they are very sympathetic ! "La petite bibliothèque électronique Jules Verne" : the text of the great french author Jules Vernes about the Bounty's mutiny : "Les révoltés de la Bounty". With the old illustrations of L. Benett. A really pretty site...
http://www.alienor.fr/~ffeghali/e-lib/bounty.html Philippe GOSSE : personal site, with a part on the Bounty.
http://www.chez.com/pgosse/maquette/Maquette.htm http://crash.ihug.co.nz/~gsnell http://www.om.com.au/cowdisley/ http://hmsbounty.com/ http://buddel.de/bounty.htm http://shipmodel.homepage.com/bounty.htm www.btinternet.com/~suffolkwt/mhistory/bounty.htm www.gardenroute.org.za/shipyard/frames.htm www.plantexplorers.com/Explorers/Biographies/Captain/Bligh.htm www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0019.html
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Marine et Modélisme d'arsenal (Gérard Delacroix's site) : One of the best french modelism web page, with a french forum on naval modelism.Gérard Delacroix is a french famous author and ships model builder. Site : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gerard.delacroix/
Forum (in french, sorry): http://forum.aceboard.net/?login=5500
Jean-Marc Babalian's site : The Gallery of Miniatures and Shipmodels. 
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/modelisme.loisirs/maquette.htm Eric Lemaillet : one of the best french model maker : 2 gold medals won in world championship. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/maquettes-marine/Index.htm "Maquettes & Marine Ancienne" : B.Rimlinger's site, great french model maker. He present his models and some of his "making secrets"... Must be seen ! http://www.chez.com/rimbr/index.htm
Samoëns models club (France). High quality models, far from the sea. Hubert Flatres is the Samoëns congress organizer. 
Jean-guy Poirier's site. As always with people from Quebec he is a very sympathetic man ! Go and have a look on his models : the Bounty, the Astrolabe, the Boudeuse from Bougainville... MNY : Directoire du modélisme naval (spanish site), sites about ship building, by countries.
Maquettisme de Marine et d'Artillerie Ancienne (Raymond Guionnot's site) : personal site, on ship modeling and magazines. A big one.
Les gabiers chimériques : a site wich a part deal with naval modelism. Full of tips and tricks with photos.
http://gabierschimeriques.free.fr/modelisme/index Club de modélisme de Contrexeville, Section Naval. French club.
http://club-contrex.i-france.com CTAM : Centre Technique des Arts Miniatures Association (loi 1901), help for all models builder
http://perso.infonie.fr/ctam Navimodélisme RC : personal site about ships model building. www.iFrance.com/modnav Modélisme : personal site about ships model building (one more ;-) www.multimania.com/accorsi/naval/naval_pas.html Robbe : the manufacturer official site. www.robbe.com Graupner : the manufacturer official site. www.graupner.com Billing Boats : the manufacturer official site. www.billingboats.com Artesania Latina : site of the italian retailer, many of the models have pictures. www.artesania.it CAP Maquettes : the manufacturer site. www.sedial.com/cap Ligue Paris Ile de France : Naval modelism french Federation. www.ffmn-idf.fr The Modelers Boatyard, Inc. : big commercial site, specialized in ship model building. www.modelersboatyard.com Marine et Modélisme d'arsenal : Gérard Delacroix's site, french famous author and ships model builder. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gerard.delacroix MRB : the French magazine "Le Modèle Réduit de Bateaux". www.mrb-revue-bateaux.com Ceuneau Marine Co Limited : commercial site, ship models from Maurice island. http://ceuneau-marine.ovh.org TALL SHIP MODELS : the place for the Tall Ship enthusiast.. www.tallshipmodels.com Vincent Besancon : a very design site, with planes and ships models. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/vincent.besancon/index.htm Pat Nolan : Pat is building the HMS Bounty by Constructo. See the steps-by-steps pictures. http://homepage.eircom.net/~patn/boatpjt.html Jari Mikkilä : Jari show us his really superb Bounty. The construction is detailled step by step. http://mikkila.remec.fi/ships/bounty/english.php Horacio Brets : from Brazil Horacio Brets had made the launch of the Bounty. http://modelismo_naval.tripod.com L'Epervier : from Patrice Pellerin, a strip cartoon in the XVIIIe century. Made with the help of Jean Boudriot's work and Eric Lemaillet's advices (Eric is twice gold medal at the naval modelism championship). www.epervier.com Personnal web site on ship modelism. www.remiremont.net/modelisme_naval Gérard Carrière : personnal web site on ship modelism. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gerard.carriere/ Jean-guy Poirier's site, from Québec (Canada). Many models : Bounty, Astrolabe, Boudeuse... Jean-Guy is really a very sympathetic guy !
Thomas Alekinski's site You can see a couple of pictures of his model "Norske Love" from the Billing Boats kit he built several years ago at this Polish modeling site:
http://www.modelarstwo.org.pl/szkutnicze/galeria/aleksinski/norske_lowe/index.html
The Jean Forment's personal site.
Russian ship models gallery. Commercial site.
Ship modeling club of St.Petersburg (Russia). Commercial site.
Portsmouth Period Model Ships! Replicas of sailing warships from the most glorious days of sail - the late 17th to early 19th centuries. Commercial site.
http://www.modelships.co.uk Jacky Le Cloarec's site, about "ghosts ships".
http://modelscentrum.free.fr A good page on the HMS Victory with links. Full of good quality pictures of the HMS Victory.
HMS Victory : Official Home Page of the HMS VICTORY Royal Navy Web Site. Everything you want to know about the ship can be found here.
"HMS" club, where "HMS" = Historical Maritime Society. Research group about the Royal Navy. The links page is full of links !
SHIP MODEL SHOP - NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY PROGRAM - TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Ships in bottles (France) :A very good site with lot of models pictures. This web-site explains how to put ships in bottles, with lots of texts (about techniques and tools) and photos ; and a unique collection in the world :all the winners on multihulls of the famous "route du rhum" race : each model in a light bulb.
To build a wooden ship : With a webcam ! "My intention is to maintain a working online log including photo images of the project which I hope may be of use to others undertaking such a venture and to also assist me in maintaining a good momentum for the work in progress."
www.historic-marine-france.com www.scoop-france.com
www.abb-rosedesvents.com
Dry Dock Model : this site contains a gallery, forum, and showroom pertaining to wooden model ships. They have images of a number of different Bounty models in the gallery.
www.drydockmodels.com Dennis from DENS MODEL SHIPS : Handcrafted, scaled 1/96, wooden Model Ships, all 100% scratch built. so I can post your link.
www.densmodelships.zoomshare.com
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Site : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/gerard.delacroix/ Forum (in french, sorry): http://forum.aceboard.net/?login=5500 |
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| Ship Modelers : US (but very international) forum on ship model building. | ||
| Seaways : another US forum on ship model building from the magazin Seaway's Ships in Scale. | ||
| www.seaways.com (choice "communication center") | ||
| Webring.org : the main webring on the net. For example, You'll find the "History Ring" or the "Internet Model Shipwrights Society"... | ||
| www.webring.org | ||
| Friends of Pitcairn : Pitcairn Islands This site is a meeting place for those who are interested in the Pitcairn Islands and the HMS Bounty. Feel free to post questions, comments and information. . | ||
| http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FRIENDSofPITCAIRN | ||
| English and German forum : The Forum is new, they speak english and german. | ||
| http://forum.myphorum.de/list.php?f=13164 |
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| Greenwich Museum : hold the original HMS Bounty's plans. | ||
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http://www.nmm.ac.uk/ (Main page) http://www.nmm.ac.uk/cmr/coll_plans/coll_plans.html (Plans page) |
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| San Diego Maritime Museum : San Diego Museum (USA). | ||
The Maritime History Virtual Archives : naval history and ship model building..
The site of ANCRE, publisher of Jean Boudriot. 
Naval Historical Center : shipwrecks, HMS Bounty, U-Boat, HMS Victory, Titanic...
Maritime history from 1775 to 1815 : rich and documented site.
F.H.Chapman : swedish site presenting the book of F.H.Chapman : Architectura Navalis Mercatoria. To view the drawings go to the "ladda hem" section (at the end of the screen).
Nota : this book have been re-edited by the french editor "Le Chasse Marée". It's not a cheap book, but it size, it quality, and the extraordinary work of Chapman explain the price.
http://www.sshm.se/sjohistoriska/Avdelningar/ritarkiv/chapman/chapmanindex.html
L'Hermione : the reconstruction of the 12 frigate "L'Hermione", famous to have bring the marquis de Lafayette in America to bring the support of the France in the Indepance war.
The East Indiaman Götheborg : very rich site presenting a ship reconstruction from the swedish Indian Company in 1740, with the webcam of the naval yard !
A site on the HMS Victory, full of detailled pictures of high quality. Numerous links for other sites.
The " HMS " club, where "HMS" = Historical Maritime Society. A research group on life in Royal Navy. See the pictures. Many sites ont the links page.
Pitcairn Island Web Site - "Pitcairn Island, refuge of the mutineers from the 1789 Mutiny on the HMS Bounty, is today the home of a community of people living 1000 miles from their nearest neighbors. Information, directory, many photographs, history, culture. "
"The first Guide about Tahiti and her Islands designed by a native Tahitian"
Pitcairn Islands Study Center : "The Study Center contains the largest North American collection of materials relating to the Mutiny on the Bounty, Captain William Bligh, H.M.S. Bounty, Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands".Herb Ford, the center director is very sympathetic !
A page present the last news from Pitcairn and even dates for the ships wich goes to the island, if you want to meet the Bounty's past... (page Pitcairn's news)
http://library.puc.edu/pitcairn Pitcairn Government Website : the official site for Pitcairn.
The "Société des Océanistes" (Oceania society) study the Oceania, part of the world where a big part of the Bounty story took place. 
http://www.mnhn.fr/oceanist/ Pitcairn Online : "Paradise has a Home Page"...
Pacific promotion : more than 1000 photos on Tahiti. You'll find Bounty pictures and wallpapers. Really a SUPERB site, you must visit it !
www.pacific-promotion.com
