Portland Scale Model Company

https://portlandscaleshipco.com/

Portland Scale Ship Co. is a small American manufacturer based in Portland, Oregon, run by a designer known in the ship modeling community by the forum handle "scrubbyj427." The company sources its wood locally from Portland's Gilmer Wood Company and produces original 1:48 (quarter-inch) scale wooden ship model kits, sold in sequential build "chapters" rather than as a single boxed kit, which the company says is meant to make advanced, complex builds more manageable for modelers. The company is known for historically-based Royal Navy sailing ship subjects from the 17th-18th centuries, most notably HMS Portland (1770), a 50-gun 4th rate two-decker, and HMS Winchelsea, a frigate. Kits are designed as plank-on-bulkhead/plank-on-frame hybrids intended as "semi-scratch" projects bridging conventional kit-building and full scratch construction, and are built from premium woods such as boxwood, pearwood, cherry, and yellow cedar, with CNC-carved figures, laser-cut components, and 3D resin-printed fittings. The company appears to be a relatively new entrant, having been introduced to the ship-modeling community (e.g., on Model Ship World and Ships of Scale forums) as kit prototypes and chapters became available, with its own e-commerce website only recently going live to sell kits directly to modelers worldwide.