Nautical Models Bronze Victorian Binoculars Gift Item

[Music] [Music] as this is the first in what I hope to become a series of videos I thought it would be instructive to talk briefly about the art of building miniature models from scratch and how I became a model maker [Music] I was born in 1942 so my childhood years bandanaira where little was available in the way of toys or model kits so anything we youngsters might be inspired to build with the aid of a few scraps firewood the blunt penknife were almost certainly doomed to failure personally involvement in the craft was basically a non-starter academically I did not shine however the one thing I was quite good at was painting and at the age of 13 one scholarship to a new and experimental two-year course specializing in fine art and a-15 I moved on to a school where I remained until I was 21 it's only in comparatively recent years that I've become very aware of the benefits that such a