Have you ever seen a model of the USS Constitution in a watchcase? Or models of the swan boats? How about a cross-section model of Old Ironsides that took more than 3,000 hours to build? Members of ...

Boxborough's Ross Hunter made his first model ship back in 1958 at age 10. He was living in Holland at the time and one day his father, a model ship builder himself, took Hunter and his brother to a ...

Joseph Schultz sticks with a project. It may take a while. Maybe a couple of decades, but the results are great. Joseph began working on a model of the USS Constitution when he was 15, and he worked ...

Many people enjoy collecting model ships and airplanes, but for one Clyde resident, what started as a passion for learning about history turned into a ...

The USS Constitution Museum’s fourth-annual LEGO Maritime Festival began virtually for the first time Saturday, kicking off nine days of at-home creative and educational activities. The USS ...

The Charlestown Navy Yard stands still on a frigid March morning. Heavy snow swallows the wheels of parked cars and muffles the footsteps of a few workmen trudging along in Carhartt outerwear. Rusted ...

CHARLESTOWN — Perhaps what drives Ray Crean to build model ships is in his DNA. How else to explain this “journey into excess,” as the 80 year old calls his lifetime hobby. Model shipbuilders are ...