Scale Models
Models I have built, mostly ships, from wooden kits to 1:700 plastic.
Kuri
Japanese destroyer · 2018
A Momi-class destroyer of the Imperial Japanese Navy, built in 1920, with her crew on deck and signal flags flying.
Suzuya
Japanese heavy cruiser · 2018
A Mogami-class heavy cruiser of the Imperial Japanese Navy, moored to a buoy with her boats alongside. She was sunk off Samar in October 1944.
Port of Fuzhou, 1884
Diorama, Sino-French War · 2019
Ships of China's Fujian Fleet in the Min River, and one on the slipway of the navy yard. In August 1884 a French squadron destroyed the fleet here, in the Battle of Fuzhou.
HMS Salamander (1687)
Royal Navy bomb vessel, in wood · 2023
The hull is built in two parts, upper and lower, set apart to show the decks and the hold with its cargo.
Chinese Pavilion
Wooden architecture model · 2023
A two-story pavilion with sweeping eaves, still on the workbench.
Mary Rose
Tudor warship, 1:400 · 2024
Henry VIII's warship, launched in 1511, sunk in the Solent in 1545 and raised in 1982, here under full sail on a sculpted sea.
- Scale
- 1:400
- Kit
- Airfix
Mary Rose, Finished
Tudor warship, 1:400 · 2024
- Scale
- 1:400
- Kit
- Airfix
USS Gerald R. Ford
Aircraft carrier, 1:700, with lights · 2026
The lead ship of the U.S. Navy's newest class of carriers (CVN‑78), with a full air wing on deck.
- Scale
- 1:700
- Kit
- Magic Factory
Yamato
Battleship, 1:700 · 2026
The largest battleship ever built. Shown at TRICON 2026, the IPMS Three Rivers model show in Pittsburgh, where it won Best Ship and a Judge's Award.
- Scale
- 1:700
- Shown at
- TRICON 2026, Pittsburgh
- Awards
- Best Ship, Judge's Award