It’s being captained by Mauro Martuscelli, a Brazilian harbor pilot in his mid-50s who travelled here from his home port in Santos to spend a week steering this model ship, and others like it ...

“I have been collecting 1/1,200 scale model warships of the two world wars since 1969,” he said. ... Model ships served an important military purpose.

Wearing a mask and gloves, Wu Pei, 65, carefully worked the wooden steps on the scale model of the famed Swedish warship Vasa with a file and then polished them with emery paper.

1/32 scale model of sailing ship HMS Royal William sold for $18,400. The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 20, 2013 1:52 PM EDT | Last Updated: June 20, 2013. Model ship up for auction in B.C.

It takes passion to recreate a piece of history, especially when records are incomplete and no one’s lived to tell the tale. One man’s passion is now turning into something tangible: he is recreating ...

The old board game Battleship is taken to a whole new level when the captains of the Washington Cascade Column take to the water, as they did Monday in Tacoma.

In fact, they’re photographs of a 1:1200 scale model of the city housed in the Queens Museum. The photographs are part of a series named New York, New York, New York, 2016, ...

He has since built 33 scale model ships, a number of which, like the Bluenose, have been celebrated in song and story: Edmund Fitzgerald, Reuben James, Marco Polo, Titanic.