HMS Victory.......from HMS Victory

[Garry Russell]

Unbelievable talent

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... thing.html

[DarrenL]

Looks very good indeed. He's got more patience than me too

[DaveB]

Blimey! Not a lot I can say about that!

ATB

DaveB

[Garry Russell]

I'd probably drop it

[FlyTexas]

Amazing! It's even nicer than the X-Plane 'Comet', eh Garry? But seriously, I hope a museum purchases the model so the public can enjoy his masterpiece.

Brian

[jonesey2k]

I'd have got bored after a few weeks and probably used it as kindling

[Seaking]

My jaw dropped open when I saw that picture, amazing talent !

[DanKH]

And he even have 3 children .....

I liked this too about Lord Nelson:

After Trafalgar, she returned to England with Nelson’s body preserved in a barrel of brandy.

He couldn't have dreamed of a better way, could he?

[FlyTexas]

I found this on snopes.com. Yikes!

According to baseless hearsay, when the barrel was opened in England, it was considerably less than full. (In reality, Nelson arrived fairly topped up.) This gave rise to the story that sailors aboard the Victory had been unwilling to let a little thing like a decomposing dead Admiral get between them and their daily swigging and thus had been siphoning off generous helpings, eventually draining the funerary cask dry. Thanks to this bit of lore, the British Navy has come to use the term "tapping the Admiral" for getting an unauthorized drink of rum via a surreptitious straw.

[Garry Russell]

Was it Napoleon Brandy???