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Museum Quality Models
Chucks Ship Models is an online site established to allow quick and convenient ordering of Chuck Miller’s handcrafted museum quality models of a wide variety of noted ships. Chuck Miller has been building the museum quality ships for over thirty years, successfully meeting and exceeding the requirements of model companies, the navy, museums, and buyers and collectors from all over the country. Many hundreds of hours have been put into the careful, gifted, and replica-perfect building of Chucks Ship Models.
Most of the museum quality models that Chuck Miller builds are plank on frame, which means that the keel is set, the frame structure is set up, and then the hull is planked exactly like a real sized ship. Chuck Miller spends at least sixty hours a week building the coveted Chucks Ship Models and thoroughly enjoys every minute spent at the work table. Chuck Miller also builds the display tables for the museum quality models to sit on and these are made from the finest oak available.
Chucks Ship Models tables can be fabricated with Queen Anne legs or shaker legs and they can be finished in almost any color that oak will allow. The superb cases that hold the museum quality models are custom made for each ship model by New Wave Acrylics of Charlotte.
Chucks Ship Models ships to customers all over the world and Chuck Miller uses the services of a company in Charlotte, North Carolina that specializes in the crating and shipping of antiques and art. All of the museum quality models from Chucks Ship Models are shipped fully insured. The talented craftsman of Chucks Ship Models is often requested to build a specific museum quality model. If customers do not see the particular ship model they wish to acquire, they may make inquiries and complete the order form.
Chucks Ship Models’ museum quality model of the brigantine, the Corsair, is 30 inches long and 24 inches tall and on a 1/80 scale. The old brigantine was fast and easy to maneuver and became the favorite vessel for pirates. It had twice the cargo space of a sloop and could carry as many as a hundred pirates and had enough fire-power to intimidate targets. The museum quality model of the CSS Alabama built by Chucks Ship Models is 30 inches long on a 1/120 scale.
Built for the Confederacy in 1862 she raided US merchant shipping and in her two year career captured more than sixty Union ships.
The museum quality model of the USS Constitution represents the most famous and oldest American commissioned warship which earned the nickname “Old Ironsides” when a sailor saw a cannonball bounce off her hull. Chuck Miller of Chucks Ship Models has built this model plank on frame with copper plates below the waterline. Chucks Ship Models offers a superb museum quality model of The Mayflower, the ship which carried the pilgrims to America. It is built from a variety of woods and is very colorful, yet has very little paint.