Unlike model airplane kits or submarines, sailing ships have a lot of intricate parts. The masts, ropes and rigging can consist of more than a few pieces.

Allen Daffern uses tweezers to put in the rigging of the HMS Leopard on Thursday, April 11, at his home in Kalispell. He said that rigging the ships is mostly mundane, but requires a lot of time ...

Rigging requires patience." Brostrom said the most challenging ship he's ever built is the 1:100 scale model replica of the Soleil Royal. The finished product measures about one yard in length.

Williams is a member of the Sun City Model Builders Club and has completed 17 ships, nearly all of them old sailing ships with tall masts and plenty of rigging. They can take months to complete.

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.

At one end of the living room is a wooden replica of the HMS Bellona, the first of a line of 74-gun ships used by the Royal Navy in the late 1700s. At another there is a model of the HMY Royal ...

She admitted it's no small task. "I think you’ve sensed a bit of what goes into a ship model, which has rigging, it has delicate decking and it has an unusual kind of a balance," Davis said.

It started in 1905 and Bluejacket Ship Crafters in Searsport is still making model ships in their location right off Route 1. There is more to the building and the company than meets the eye.

A scale model of an 18th-century ship has sailed off with some unexpected booty following an auction in Vancouver. Seventy-two-year-old Victor Jankovic hoped his 2.4-metre long, nearly two-metre ...