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Paper Models

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Modeler’s Name: Jay Phillips

Type of Model: Paper

Description of build: Simplified for easy construction. Few parts. Scissors, glue, and tape construction. Models downloaded from the Internet.

Jay Phillips’ paper models from October 2023 Exhibit
  • H.L. Hunley: Confederate Submarine, 1864 CE
  • U-96 “Das Boot”: WWII German U-Boat. 1942 CE
Jay Phillips’ paper models from October 2023 Exhibit
  • Xebec (zee-beck): A favorite of Mediterranean pirates. 1650 CE
  • Depet m Kemet: Ship of Egypt. Ancient Egyptian cargo ship. 18th Dynasty; circa 1500 BCE. Scale 1:75. Length 66 feet
Jay Phillips’ paper models from October 2023 Exhibit
  • Fide Ship: Cog cargo ship, first use of a stern rudder, 1225 CE
  • USS Independence LCS-2: Littoral Combat Ship. 1:300 scale. 2010 CE
  • ORU Folding Kayak, Bay Model: Length 12 feet. 1:10 scale. Present day.

Martin Jelsema

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Modeler’s Bio:
This is Martin Jelsema’s fourth build since “retiring” as a marketing consultant four years ago. As a teenager he built the wooden schooner model of the Bluenose. He collected tools for the next 50 years in anticipation of renewing the hobby while pursuing a career in advertising and market consulting.

Ranger

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This model of an 1824 U.S. revenue cutter was built from a kit by Martin Jelsema.

Description of Model

This model of an 1824 U.S. revenue cutter was built from a kit by Martin Jelsema. It is a plank-on-bulwark model consisting of several types of wood, cast fixtures, cord and wire.

History of the ship

The model represents a class of square-sail schooner used by the U.S. Revenue Service (later the U.S. Coast Guard) in the early 19th Century. They were fast, designed to confront smugglers and slave ships in our coastal waters.

Scale: 1-50

17” x 16”

Obelisk Barge of Queen Hatshepsuit

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This model was scratch-built by John McGann and he travelled to Egypt to bring back the pink granite.

Description of model

This model was scratch–built by John McGann. He produced the drawings from Bjorn Liandstrom’s book, Ships of the Pharaohs. The obelisks are pink granite from the  quarry in Aswan from which the original obelisks were fashioned. The model is constructed of sycamore just as the original barge was.

History of the ship

The barge was used to transport two 98-feet long granite obelisks from Aswan to Karnak. The ship is depicted on the wall of Hatshepsuit’s funerary temple, Deir El Bahri.

Scale: 1/8” 34” x 14” x 15

Royal Barge of Pharaoh Khufu

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The model was scratch-built by John McGann using western red cedar.

Description of the model

The model was scratch-built by John McGann using western red cedar. The case is a copy of a travelling case found by Howard Carter in the tomb of King Tut in 1922.

History of the ship

The Royal Barge was buried in a pit alongside the Great Pyramid in 1209BC. It was discovered in 1954 while clearing debris from the base of the Great Pyramid. The barge was disassembled into 1,200 pieces and reassembled. It took 17 years to do this. The boat is built of cedar and entirely sewn together. It’s 142 feet long and weighs 42 tons.

Scale: 1/8”=1” (1/96)

21” x 11” x 12”

Die Kogge von Bremen

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John McGann built this model from scratch using drawings produced by the shipwright responsible for recovering and restoring the sunken ship.

Description of the model

John McGann built this model from scratch using drawings produced by the shipwright responsible for recovering and restoring the sunken ship. He used apple wood. John  reproduced every piece that was recovered from the wreckage, but did not attempt to “add” pieces not found.

History of the ship

The Cog replaced Viking style vessels around 900 AD. They were used throughout Europe until the 1450’s. The Cog of Bremen was being built in Bremen Germany in 1380 when a flood swept it from the yard and into the River Wesser. She capsized and was lost until the dredging of the river in 1962. It is the only known Cog existing and is now preserved and displayed at the Maritime Museum at Bremerhaven, Germany.

Scale: 1-40

30” x 16” x 17”

Ed Quam

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Modeler’s Bio:
Edward is a retired former Intelligence officer. Born and raised in Colorado educated at CU, DU and Harvard. While stationed in Washington D.C. he was and is a member of the Washington Ship Model Association and a Plank member of the Nautical Research Guild. He has built over 25 models over 60 years of modeling and has displayed them in various venues around the country.

USS Maine

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Description of the model

Ed Quam built this limited edition kit( # 10) by Bluejacket.  Highly modified.  Bass wood solid hull.  Resin castings, metal guns and masts, etched brass

History of the ship

Ship was sunk in Havana harbor as a result of “Spanish” sabotage, thus starting the Spanish American War.

38” x 13”

Kate Cory

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Description of the model:

The model was scratch built from the plans noted below by Ed Quam.  She is made of bass wood, fiber rigging and copper.

History of the ship:

Whaling ship out of New England owned by the Corey family.  She was sunk by the Confederate Navy.  The Corey family had all the documents related to her construction and disposition to file for reparations. 

A trunk full of these documents were found in the Corey attic in the mid 1970’s Model shipways had the plans drawn up and a kit was produced. 

Fair America

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Fair America is a semi scratch built model by Ed Quam. All carvings are out of box wood and done by hand.

Brief history of the ship:

One of America’s first Naval ships in the Colonial Navy.  She was captured by the British and so admired that they took her lines off to be copied.

30” x 15”