When the Queen Mary in Long Beach opens its new Ship Model Gallery on Thursday, look for a miniature Winston Churchill. The tiny former British prime minister appears with a top hat strolling on the deck of a 20-foot-long shipbuilder's model of the Queen Mary. The comment came almost off hand, as if he were thinking out loud. Cemal Pulak, a nautical archaeology professor at Texas A&M University and one of my father’s former students, pondered why so few of my dad’s ship models had survived. “It’s odd isn It wasn’t finished. It was the hull of the model of the British Ship HMS Victory, and it was being completed by her husband James G. (Jim) McNally, Jr. when he passed on in 2005. The model ended up in the hands of the family friend, Doug Anderson The USS Monitor was credited with saving the Union during the Civil-War. A remote-controlled scale model of the ship reveals its unique design features. It had a revolving turret armed with two 11-inch guns weighing 16,000 pounds each. The ship rode low on The model will undergo restoration in the Institute of Nautical Archaeology's ship model laboratory and is scheduled to go on display after renovations to the Nautical Archaeology Building at Texas A&M are completed early next year. Check the website Water. The three-part exhibit will showcase a traveling gallery of water-themed paintings, complimented by a collection of model ships and another gallery of paintings that pay tribute to the Great Lakes. The ships are all recreations of actual ships that .
Edwin B. Leaf tells seafaring tales in three dimensions. He's built more than 150 exquisitely detailed, historically accurate model ships - to scale, by hand - and has authored a book ( Ship Modeling From Scratch) about how to do it. Not that technique is Jayne Smith's grandson, Preston, is 5 years old and seeing the Great Lakes and lake freighters for the first time. He's from Mesa, Arizona, and there's not much water there. "With the big ships, his jaw dropped," said Smith, who is from Shelby Township. One day three World War II-era model ships — a destroyer, a tanker and a Liberty Ship — were displayed on a table in Robert Stockard’s Elon condo. The next day, they were gone to new homes for people all over the world to enjoy. Shipbuilder Stockard Last year, Lou Husser was handed a heap of wood, thread and canvas and asked to make a sailing ship from it. This was both easier than it sounds and more difficult. Easier because the materials had, in fact, once been a sailing ship — a model made 50 or .
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