On Saturdays, as Tony Colton builds miniature ships that will eventually sit inside narrow-necked bottles, the first question he gets from visitors to the USS Constitution Museum is usually the same. ...

From Revell, one of the best-known purveyors of miniature models, comes a 156-piece plastic replica of the Titanic, which snaps together into a 17.6-inch-long, 1:600 scale model of the hubristic ...

There are a few ways to get an oversize object through the skinny neck of a bottle. A model ship is made to collapse its masts and sails and then be slid through the open mouth. Once the ship's inside ...

For Michael Stoddart, building a ship in a bottle all comes down to finding the right vessel. "My experience is that you need to have a bottle that inspires you," he said. "A nice, clean bottle which ...

Boxborough's Ross Hunter made his first model ship back in 1958 at age 10. He was living in Holland at the time and one day his father, a model ship builder himself, took Hunter and his brother to a ...

Yinka Shonibare's replica of HMS Victory in a bottle was unveiled on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square today. 24 May 2010 • 9:45am The model of HMS Victory, Admiral Horatio Nelson's flagship at ...

In making the request, Paul F. Johnston, Ph.D., Curator of Maritime History at the museum said: "While we normally limit our collecting to historic and technological materials, we do occasionally ...