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 ...

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 ...

A magazine is offering readers the chance to build a model of the famous battleship HMS Hood - for a staggering £830. The Build A Battleship series gives subscribers the opportunity to 'relive the ...

Nguyen Chi Thanh, a twelfth grader in HCMC’s outlying district of Cu Chi, has a cheap hobby to build scale model battleships from scrap carton paper. Nguyen Chi Thanh, a twelfth grader in HCMC’s ...

The USS Niagara sat at rest Wednesday, its rigging set to sail to starboard and its long guns, cannons and carronades in position for battle. Or rather, they would have been had the brig been about 64 ...

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 ...

STURGIS | During World War II, the battleship USS South Dakota sailed hundreds of thousands of miles, seeing combat in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. In November, a five-foot scale model of the ...

Speaking of giant models, Maine-resident William Terra has spent 6 years completing this gigantic 1:20-scale model of a World War II German Panzerschiff, the ...

Space Battleship Yamato is the name of a (rather short-lived) Japanese science fiction anime series that was aired on TV in countries other than Nippon some 20 to 30 years ago (outside Japan the anime ...

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 ...