The first ship he ever rigged was an 8-inch model of the Flying Cloud clipper, at the age of 12. Next was a replica of Captain Hook's pirate ship, the Jolly Roger, from the movie "Peter Pan." ...

Unlike model airplane kits or submarines, sailing ships have a lot of intricate parts. The masts, ropes and rigging can consist of more than a few pieces.

Sun City Model Builders Club member Glenn Williams' model ships can take months to complete, and his work will be among those on display during a workshop at the Las Vegas N-Trak Train Club's ...

MICHAEL TSAI / [email protected] Wearing magnifying glasses, Leroy Laney examines his model of the Royal Louis, an 18th-century French ship. At one end of the living room is a wooden ...

When Katie McNally, from Ontario, N.Y., donated nine model boats to the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum in the autumn of 2011, one was held back. It wasn't finished. It was the hull of the model ...

A model of the USS Constitution is on display at the MFA's new Art of the Americas wing. (Courtesy of MFA Boston) The huge $500 million expansion project at the Museum of Fine Arts hits a major ...

It started in 1905 and Bluejacket Ship Crafters in Searsport is still making model ships in their location right off Route 1. There is more to the building and the company than meets the eye.

A scale model of an 18th-century ship has sailed off with some unexpected booty following an auction in Vancouver. Seventy-two-year-old Victor Jankovic hoped his 2.4-metre long, nearly two-metre ...

Irma's the person who donated the ship model to the museum. She got it from Agnes Tacey.Tacey — who died in 2010 — was a corrections officer at Lorton, which closed in 2001.