Modeller spends 62 years building a fleet of 430 ships

模型大师花62年制作微缩版英国海军舰队

For more than 60 years master modeller Philip Warren has been creating an armada of Royal Navy warships since the Second World War out of matchsticks and wooden matchboxes as a modern day tribute to the vessels that have been serving his country since 1945. More than 650,000 matches have been used to create every class of ship in the Royal Navy on a scale model of 1:300. And he has even crafted 1,200 model aircraft out of matches to make his scale-model carrier ships look even more realistic. The average ship takes up to three months to build, and each of his largest creations can take up to a year. Philip Warren, now 79-year-old, is currently exhibiting 251 of his ships at the Nothe Fort Museum in Weymouth.

据英国《每日邮报》8月26日报道，英国模型大师菲利普-沃伦自二战时期以来，60多年孜孜不倦，用火柴棍和木头火柴盒自制了一组英国皇家海军舰队模型，从而表达自己对自1945年起就为英国效力的皇家海军舰队的敬意。这些模型与真实战舰比例为1：300，乃是沃伦用65万根火柴制成。沃伦甚至还用火柴做了1200架飞机，以使他的航空母舰看起来更加逼真。据了解，每艘战舰需耗工3个月，而那些最大的战舰每艘要花费沃伦1年的时间。目前，79岁的沃伦正在英国韦茅斯的Nothe Fort博物馆展出自己的251战舰。