Handcrafted Models HMS Surprise Model Ship- Limited Edition - 38"- The highest quality HMS Surprise available!
- Comes with numbered Certificate of Authenticity (only 50 models to be built)
- Museum quality with many features not available in a model for under $5,000 or in any model kit
- Real Copper plated hull (not painted on), like the actual HMS Surprise (done to prevent the toredo worm from destroying the wood hull)
- Amazing details: planked deck with nail holes, tied-down cannons, barells, buckets, cannon ball racks, rudder chains, and more
- Meticulously painted to the actual HMS Surprise
- Masterfully stitched, thick canvass sails that hold their shape and do not wrinkle
- Metal anchors and turned brass cannons
- Advanced rigging techniques with over 200 blocks/deadeyes
- Perfectly taught rigging of various colors and thickness to ensure authenticity
- Authentic lifeboats - not flat bottomed
- Requires hundreds of hours to build from scratch (not from a model kit) by our master artisans
- Built with rare, high quality woods such as cherry, walnut, oak, birch and maple
- The model rests perfectly on a large marble base between four arched metal dolphins
- To build this ship, extensive research was done using various sources such as museums, drawings, copies of original plans and photos of the actual ship
- Comes fully assembled
- Dimensions: 38" x 12" x 29" (L x W x H)
   |
