Syren Ship Model Company

https://syrenshipmodelcompany.com/

Syren Ship Model Company is a small American ship modeling supplier founded by Chuck Passaro, a master modeler and one of the designers of kits for Model Shipways. The company is named after the US Brig Syren (1803), one of the historic vessels Passaro designed a well-regarded kit for; he said fond memories of that project led him to name the company after it. Based in New Jersey, the company got its start selling ship model fittings and supplies before branching into complete kits. Syren is best known among wooden ship modelers for its precision boxwood ship model rigging blocks, miniature rope and rigging line, turned brass cannon and swivel guns, and milled lumber sheets (Boxwood, Swiss Pear, and Alaskan Yellow Cedar). Chuck Passaro makes many of these fittings by hand himself in his New Jersey workshop, and the products are all made in the USA. The company later expanded into producing its own plank-on-bulkhead laser-cut kits, including an 18th century English frigate project, and other small craft kits such as the Medway Longboat, aimed at experienced modelers seeking high accuracy and detail at scales like 1:48 and 1:24.

Kits

	Kit	Ship	Scale	Status
	Revenue Cutter Cheerful 1806	HM Cutter Cheerful (1806)	1:48 (1/4 in=1 ft, O)	Available
	Medway Longboat 1742	—	—	Available
	HMS Winchelsea 1764	HMS Winchelsea (1764)	1:48 (1/4 in=1 ft, O)	Available
	Queen Anne Style Royal Barge Kit 1705	—	1:24	Submitted
	Ketch Rigged Sloop Speedwell 1752	Speedwell (1620 Pilgrim ship)	1:32	Available