The Match stick Fleet

[third eye]

79-year-old Phil Warren from the UK spent 62 years to build this incredible fleet of 432 ships. All vessels are built entirely of matchsticks and boxes of wooden matches. The collection includes nearly 370 American and 60 British ships.

Although now has 79 years of age, began creating his first boat in 1948, when he was only 17. This uses a razor blade, tweezers and sandpaper to carve the pieces and boxes, then stick with balsa wood glue. In total more than 650,000 used matchsticks to create an amazing collection of 1:300 scale models. Even 1,200 aircraft made ​​even more realistic appearance to dress the decks of aircraft carriers.

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[third eye]

 

[Tin Man]

Reminds me of a cousin of mine......obsessed with model airplanes.

 

[Thorough Pro]

unbelievable, awesome, back breaking work.

 

[Capt.Popeye]

^^^
Fantastic work there. Reminds of my school days, whittling ships out of balsa wood and using pins and clips to fashion out the masts and structurals. Took time to make, but was self satisfying. Incredibly, I moved on to Airfix and Revell scale models after that. And my Dad said that I was a fool to do so.

 

[RazPaK]

Respect to this man!!

 

[Nothing]

Wow .. you are too good Phil Warren.. you just made my day (actually night ). I don't have word to appreciate your work ,passion and consistency ...I wish I can 10% of it b y any chance ... really needed to finish some certification

 

[RazPaK]

I wouldn't even be able to do one plane.

 

[third eye]

I wouldn't even be able to do one plane.

I agree.

This must be incredibly difficult & pain staking work .

It must need more than rudimentary knowledege of designing too.

 

[Jango]

the amount of detail, and attention to everything, requiring alot of patience, WELL DONE mate.