For hours a day, George Karitianos sits at a workbench in the corner of his garage and applies immense patience and tiny tools to an extraordinary avocation. "I've been going nuts with this," he said, ...
A fascinating exhibition exploring the history of ship models and the evolution in shipbuilding design opens at the Scottish Maritime Museum on Irvine Harbourside on Saturday. ‘Ship Models - A History ...
Powerful storms wreak havoc on people’s lives, forcing them to pick up the pieces and gradually move on. That’s certainly true for Jack Pesso, whose handcrafted collection of model ships was damaged ...
>> WE SAY IT’S LIKE YOGA. KIND OF LIKE, YOU JUST FOCUS, AND THREE HOURS GO BY LIKE THAT. BEN: ERIC BERTELSTEN AND HIS CREW OF FELLOW MODEL SHIP ENTHUSIASTS CAN SPEND HOUR, DAYS, AND EVEN YEARS WORKING ...
DONALD McNarry, considered by model ship enthusiasts to be the master of ''extreme'' miniature shipbuilding, has died in England. He was 89. McNarry took up model making as a hobby when he was a boy ...
“All the old wooden boat builders are disappearing fast in Britain. Lovely to see a model of one,” reads a feedback on a social media post about a miniature sail boat. “He’s talking about the ‘Dragon’ ...
The tiny warship was carved crudely from pieces of bone, its gun holes scraped out with fragments of glass, its rigging strung with human hair. It was fashioned from primitive materials, yet the ...
David Reynolds knows a thing or two about making matchstick models. The retired oil rig worker, from Swaythling in Southampton, has got through about six million matchsticks after taking up the hobby ...
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