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| Museum Quality
Scale Model Ships! |
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| If you are looking
for museum quality model ships, you've come to the right
place!!! My name is Larry Pulka and I have been building model
military and merchant ships like the one below since
1976!
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| There are only
about a dozen people in the world who build model ships from
exotic woods exclusively. I use a variety of tropical woods
such as Ebony, African Mahogany and Jatoba, as well as
domestic woods, like Cypress, Apple, and Butternut.
My ships are crafted using the various natural colors of
the woods themselves instead of paint or stain! I look
at the wood like an artist looks at his paint palate. A
creamy-white color is old American Holly and Bloodwood is
obviously a red color. English Yew is orange. I can get almost
any color I need just from the wood!
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| A great deal of
preparation and planning occurs before I even pick up a saw or
a knife. I research the original ships and try to find
blueprints to use to make each ship as realistic as possible!
I build each ship in what is known as dockyard style or
admiralty class style, which means that I build my ships
exactly like the original full size ships were built! Each
ship is signed and numbered! |
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| Thank you for
visiting my site! If you have any questions, please contact me
at the address below, or click on the contact link below to
send me an e-mail. | |
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