Doug Unsold of Waterford holds the scale model of the USS Bentley, a Civil War era gunboat, that he made from scratch. Unsold, a Civil War reenactor, does presentations combining his hobby and history ...

The Suncoast Scale Model Boat Club (SSMBC) was originally formed in 1976, making it the first club of it kind in the Tampa Bay Area. The founders, Harold “Mike” Sriver and Lew Zerfas started meets at ...

PORT TOWNSEND — When he was 4 years old, Dan Newland started building model airplanes, the kind with plastic parts you punch out and snap together. By the time he was in grade school, he had graduated ...

Swarup Bhattacharyya is popularly known as the ‘Boatman of Bengal’ for his three-decade-long anthropological research on Bengal boats. But unknown to many, he is also an artist who specialises in ...

Making a model boat kit is not just great fun, it can improve a kid’s coordination and can also be educational. Of course, model boats aren’t just for children. Complex models give hours of pleasure ...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — Terry Richardson blends art, science and patience to create intricately accurate models of marine vessels and aircraft, of which a few specimens can be seen in the Tongass ...

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