When most people think of hobbies - scrapbooking, model aeroplanes or stamp collecting usually come to mind. But what about building your own radio-controlled (RC) battleship, arming it with ball ...

HAMBURG, GERMANY — For Peter Tamm, the passion that launched a thousand ships -- and Hamburg’s newest museum along the port city’s old docks -- began with a gift from his mother in 1934. “A 500-gross ...

Not the typical model battleship, the Raleigh County Veterans Museum dedicated its 20-foot, 1,000-pound model of the USS West Virginia Saturday. The creation is said to be the largest model of an ...

But a fierce bidding frenzy broke out between two European collectors - with the hammer eventually slamming down at £76,000 in front of a stunned audience. 'As far as we know, it the most expensive ...

DECATUR - Walk down the stairs in the Adam Troxell Sr. home in Decatur and cast an eye upon a massive model ship. Extending over each end of a 7-foot pool table, the World War II battleship USS New ...

Shortly after reading about the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato in 1945, Bob Davis purchased his first model warship. Just like the Yamato, Davis said the rest is history. Since then he ...