For hours a day, George Karitianos sits at a workbench in the corner of his garage and applies immense patience and tiny tools to an extraordinary avocation. "I've been going nuts with this," he said, ...

“Small but Mighty” is an armada of toys and models representing 400 years of maritime history. Peter Siebert, president and CEO of Independence Seaport Museum, stands among the model ships on display ...

DONALD McNarry, considered by model ship enthusiasts to be the master of ''extreme'' miniature shipbuilding, has died in England. He was 89. McNarry took up model making as a hobby when he was a boy ...

‘Ship Models - A History of Shipping in Miniature’ explores the history of ship models and the evolution in shipbuilding design. This fascinating exhibition features a diverse collection of ship ...

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The Independence Seaport Museum is preparing to unveil a new permanent exhibit of battleships and steamboats that could comfortably fit on a bookshelf. "Small but Mighty!: Models, Toys and Miniature ...

The tiny warship was carved crudely from pieces of bone, its gun holes scraped out with fragments of glass, its rigging strung with human hair. It was fashioned from primitive materials, yet the ...

“All the old wooden boat builders are disappearing fast in Britain. Lovely to see a model of one,” reads a feedback on a social media post about a miniature sail boat. “He’s talking about the ‘Dragon’ ...