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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GentleGiant" data-source="post: 2518306" data-attributes="member: 11829">First of, I haven't done a ship model as such, but I've done lots of other dioramas/models/buildings (think your "normal" Warhammer Fantasy Battle and 40K buildings/models).Okay, some more info would be useful.What level of detail do you want?Do you want a fully explorable ship (e.g. do you want to be able to take off the deck and put miniatures in the hold?)?Are you open to working with other materials than just cardboard and a hot glue gun?A couple suggestions on how I might want to tackle it:Make the entire hull out of foam (insulation foam plates, old foam crates etc.). Simply glue* enough plates together to get the height of the hull and then use a sharp knife** to shape the hull. Presto, one piece of finished hull you can then add cardboard on to to represent the deck, railing etc.Use foam board/foamcore (two pieces of thin cardboard with foam inbetween) to make up the skeleton of the hull and then add cardboard to the curved sides. This way you could also make the hull accessible, but it would require more work. I'm sure you might be able to find some schematics of old ships to use as a template.And the expensive version: Balsa wood. It's light weight and can be steamed into bendy shapes so you could get an "authentic" ship feel. But it can be fairly expensive.All of the above solutions are still very lightweight and shouldn't present a problem concerning transporting the models around. The sturdiest solution is clearly the solid foam Foam board/foamcore, a sharp knife and PVA glue are your new best friends when doing models. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />* With ordinary woodglue - or any other "white" PVA glue - sorry, don't know all the types available in the US** But beware that cutting the foam might dull the blade - so use one of those expandable blade cutters - an alternative is using a hot wire cutter (do a google search)</blockquote>

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