As Peter Rea holds a battered wooden ship model in his hands, he marvels at the secrets it holds. The model was used to build a 60-foot-long ship, called Mystery, in Erina Creek on the New South Wales ...

“It was unforgettable,” describes Queenthunk Amalanathan F (Amal). He is talking about the miniature model of INS Vikramaditya, the flagship of the Indian Navy, which he built from scratch for the ...

Left alone for years at the beginning of the 19th Century, French soldiers taken captive during the Napoleonic Wars found an unusually hobby — fashioning ornate replicas of British ships, out of beef ...

HEFEI－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. "The middle ...

KOCHI: Cochin University of Science and Technology (Cusat) is set to have a ship model making facility that will enhance the quality of practical learning of ship and boat building which will enable ...

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