HMS Victory. 4k hand carved pieces and all wood construction. The cannon are metal as are some chain. Canvas cloth sails. Rigging is accurate. Internal ribs and decks. I have seen a half dozen in collections that pale in comparison.
My favorite movie? Master and Commander. The audio people actually took a derelict sailing ship and had it fully rigged. They fired various shot from period cannon into the ship and rigging recording the sound for the movie. The tearing sailcloth, shot whizzing by and wood splintering are what was heard during an engagement.

How I acquired.
I was at an auction 20 years ago and the Estate was from a "Churchill". The estate was not advertised as descendant of the Winston clan but there was an old black and white 8x10 photograph of a family and some of them looked remarkably like Winston. Removed decendant? I don't know. There was also a humidor in the estate that I bought. Just had to.

"She is so big it will take Atlas to hold her"



















A pictorial diversion for your enjoyment.

Cheers

Very cool but where's the humidor?

The detail is amazing. Great post Wasp.

That is just amazing. I have some interesting things I have collected over the years on the sea. I will take some pistures this weekend and post them up for you lads to take a look at. Might be fun. Great post wasp

She's absolutely awesome, Waspy! Like so many of us, I too got hit by the multiple collections bug, and it's been a beeyotch trying to keep it all under control...I'll have to take some pistures this weekend, too...great wasp, posty!

Thanks Gmen!

Ocean, The humidor is not Winston old and is rather vanilla. Still, from that estate.

Damn... to this day I distinctly remember that black and white picture. There was a man in it that appeared to be about sixty or so. Grey wool suit and shaking hands with one of the other fellows in the picture. I commented then and I still believe that man was Eisenhower. I should have bought that picture for provenance. Oh well.

Cheers mates.

Bit late to the party but... Been aboard that vessel a couple of times, looks huge, until you go below decks..

I missed this post the first time around. Thanks for digging it up!

Wow, wow, wow! What an amazingly detailed model, Wasp.

Buy that $22K model Mort. Don't worry, you can stay with us for the year or two it takes the wife to let you back inside.

$22,000, holy shit. I don’t have the patience for a $10.00 model, for $22,000.00 I’d be too terrified I’d put it together wrong and have parts left over and waste all that money.

They are beautiful when done right, but I’d screw up so bad.

I put together the USS Missouri when I was a kid, but it wasn't $22k! I think I got it a Kmart for $6. My baby sister promptly destroyed it like she was Godzilla. She was a monster.

I have several kits on the shelf awaiting my time and attention. The last one I built was a model of Endeavour, however, I had completed the hull and had just finished the bowsprit gammoning and a couple of days later Anne was carrying a yucca through the house and knocked it off the shelf.. Game Over!
I can console myself that I was building it as a practise run to get my hand/eye back in... Oh well.
I have pictures somewhere but I can't find them