Ronald M. Roberti, a commercial airline pilot whose fascination with the mechanical world began with building and flying model airplanes as a child and ended in retirement with construction of ...

His wife calls it his "mistress," with whom he spends many happy hours and for which he has great passion. Greg Zimmerman, a resident of Monarch Landing in Naperville, takes tremendous pleasure in ...

Boxborough's Ross Hunter made his first model ship back in 1958 at age 10. He was living in Holland at the time and one day his father, a model ship builder himself, took Hunter and his brother to a ...

Firelands Historical Society Museum of Norwalk, in Huron County, has announced the acquisition of three model ships built by world renowned model ship builder Robert Bruckshaw, who was from Norwalk.

FAIRBANKS — Erich Bergh has been working on a model replica of the Riverboat Nenana since fall 1991. He is almost done. The lifelong Fairbanksan, 57, said he wasn’t even keen on sternwheelers when he ...

Forget for a moment about iPods, Wiis and Harry Potter, and consider how sailors once devoted countless hours to putting a ship in a bottle. Yep, building a whole miniature clipper ship inside a ...

For "The Bay Blend" podcast, WUSF's Sky Lebron joined the Tampa Bay Ship Model Society to learn about their niche hobby and ...

Ships come in many shapes and sizes—including ones that fit in bottles. No one knows this better than Jim Goodwin, a retired geologist who for 25 years has been perfecting the maritime tradition of ...

Instructions on the tools, materials, and techniques for constructing a display or working model ship of wood or plastic. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac ...