Editing Ship model (section)

== Collections ==
The largest collection of ship models is thought to be the collection at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, which numbers nearly 5,000, most of which are held in the Model Store at the No. 1 Smithery at the Historic Dockyard Chatham, Kent.

In private hands two of the largest collections belong to the hobbyists who made them. [[Philip Warren]] of England has a collection of 432 ship models built on the scale of 1:300, all of which he constructed himself. Erick Navas of Peru has a collection of 1005 warships, some of which he built from scratch.

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Skeppsmodell - 1990.jpg|Detail of a full-rigger 
File:Mi Coleccion 3 EN.jpg|Erick Navas collection
File:Philip Warren barcos con cerillos.jpg|Philip Warren collection
File:Model ship made with paper.jpg|Model ship made with non-traditional materials: rolled-up tubes of [[paper]], [[Express Mail]] labels, and [[duct tape]].
File:Modeltown2006.JPG|Model ships in a model town
File:CapstanCrewModel.jpg|Detail of a model that shows men operating a [[capstan (nautical)|capstan]]
File:South-Goodwin.jpg|4-year-old boy painting a [[Revell]] [[plastic model]] of the South Goodwin Lightship
File:Taney model.JPG|Completed Revell {{USCGC|Taney|WHEC-37}} model. Originally issued in 1956,{{citation needed|date=February 2015|reason=A brief internet search suggests this may be 80s rather than 1956.}} it was among the earliest injection molded plastic ship model kits.
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