Building model boats from scratch Meet a special individual with a talent for building boats that sit on your mantle rather than in the water; Cameron Kent has his story. Updated: 7:26 PM EDT May ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - Creating models of tall-masted clipper ships and large-scale battleships is fine for some hobbyists, but Bernard "Scotty" Scott prefers to keep his ship building close to his heart ...

East, 85, of Battle Creek, has been building model ships since he was a teenager, many of them from nothing but balsa wood and Styrofoam. "It's my toys," he said.

The Midwestern Model Ships & Boats Contest and Display is scheduled May 21-22. ... for the last three years Ecker has been building model boats from scratch with materials like fruit wood and cast ...

The history buff started building model ships from scratch in the mid-1970s. His inspiration: a trip to Vicksburg, Miss. to see the USS Cairo – the first vessel sunk by a remotely detonated mine ...

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.

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.