Chicago Tribune

MODEL BUILDER SCALES TALL SHIPS DOWN TO SIZE

J. Stephen Murray is a big man in the little world of model ship building. The 49-year-old craftsman from the Isle of Man, whose family has been building scale versions of the world`s greatest tall ...
inforum

Library displays model ships rigged by legally blind enthusiast

BISMARCK - Joel Brostrom has not allowed a limitation to keep him from succeeding at a hobby he thoroughly enjoys.The 54-year-old Bismarck resident, who was born legally blind, rigs model sailing ...
Observer-Reporter

Retired McMurray man uses expertise to build model ships

James Drake of McMurray holds his latest project, a model of the sailing ship Berlin. A tool and die maker by trade, he applies the precision he used in his work to the models he builds in his ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Model ship enthusiasts create remarkable reproductions of Navy ships: Made in Mass.

>> 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 ...
The Baltimore Sun

Pikesville man, 89, spends lifetime crafting model ships

You could call Jerome Smith a model citizen. That’s because of the 89-year-old’s lifelong hobby: collecting and building models of classic boats and airplanes. The shelves, walls, ceilings and even ...
The Boston Globe

Model shipwrights build tiny ships with vast history

On Saturdays, as Tony Colton builds miniature ships that will eventually sit inside narrow-necked bottles, the first question he gets from visitors to the USS Constitution Museum is usually the same. ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

Model makers in Madagascar are bringing history's long-lost ships back to life

A French trading ship that sank in the 17th century with treasure onboard is being brought back to life in a workshop in Madagascar with every stroke of Rafah Ralahy's small wood sander.Ralahy, eyes ...