Since the Bounty has been brought up this week, here is another one that was put on eBay. Check it out and let me know if you really think it’s worth it or if it is really from a decendant? Sometimes that stuff that they put on eBay…
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4248&item=5963270579&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
Oh Boy! This is a good one! “HMS Mutiny on the Bounty”. It looks like a wooden shoe with cardboard sails. And did you read about Pitcairn Island not ever getting any sunlight until the year 2000?? Geeez!!
Actually Dennis and Irma Christian make these for a living as well as vases and other stuff.
Both of them are direct descendants (like all 49 other Pitcairners) of the muteneers and their Tahitian wives.
http://www.lareau.org/pitc13.html
Wether it is worth the money, one should decide that for himself.
This gives me the chance to sound off (briefly - I promise) on a recurring topic: the meaning of the term “professional ship modeler.”
I’ve often heard the word “professional” applied as though it had something to do with quality of work. When I was working on the rules for the model contest at the Mariners’ Museum, for instance, quite a few correspondents suggested that there should be separate categories for amateurs and professionals. I always argued that whether a person made money off his/her models had absolutely nothing to do with the quality of said models.
The people who built the Bounty in Big Jake’s post are professional ship modelers. I rest my case.
professional = getting paid for your work / amateur= not being paid Pro does not equal good work remember 50% of the doctors in the world graduated from medical school in the lower half of their class
Never looked at this way… SCARY