by modelshipsecrets | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
HMS Tiger,a level three model, will be my first attempt constructing a model ship. Tiny cans of coloured paint will come in handy for my new hobby. In my last post, I was contemplating the timeline of change, highlighting the fact that change inevitably takes far...
by modelshipsecrets | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
By Jeff Gammage, Inquirer Staff Writer POSTED: May 08, 2014 Peter Certaine is old now, fully 86, and needs to find a new port for his beloved ship, the Amerigo Vespucci. He built it by hand, a rigorous, joyous labor that took nearly a decade. He sanded its cherry...
by modelshipsecrets | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist POSTED: August 09, 2011 As the story goes, a Philadelphia shipyard worker who killed a man became a shipbuilder again while serving a life term in the old Mount Holly jail. His name is lost to history, but the inmate’s...
by modelshipsecrets | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
When he was just 16 years old Luigi Prina entered and won a national aircraft modeling competition. When he went to collect the prize money the organizers asked the boy why his father couldn’t come and collect it himself. Nearly fifty years later the now successful...
by modelshipsecrets | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
By Kevin Riordan, Inquirer Columnist POSTED: April 23, 2014 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...
