When Tony Ansell was given an Airfix kit at was six-years-old, it was something of an inspiration. Twenty years on the keen model maker has created a fleet of radio controlled warships at his workshop ...

A model of a Lockheed Constellation built from a non-standard scales nearly 60 years old. Back then, most models were designed to fit a very specific box size. [Courtesy: Terry Moore] Scale modeling, ...

TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — Most people are familiar with the board game Battleship where players make moves to sink an opponent’s ships. A club called Northwest Naval Combat takes that to another level.

Richard Marriott is one of Harahan's most model citizens. When you enter his quaint shotgun style home, located about three blocks from the Mississippi River levee, you at once notice a three foot ...

There may be something about landlocked West Texas that makes a history teacher long for the open seas and the sailing ships of the past. Griffith "Grif" Henson, who grew up in the Midland-Odessa area ...

Inside the Navy’s test basins, ship models are dragged, flooded with waves, and even self-propelled to reveal how their full-sized counterparts will behave at sea. Freshwater is used to avoid ...