Message in a Model: Stories From the Marine Model Room of the Rijksmuseum by Ab Hoving Bottles & Tumblers Building a 1/35th Harbor Defense

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Ships in Scale returns with a packed inaugural issue that sets the tone for the relaunched magazine: serious content

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Message in a Model: Stories From the Marine Model Room of the Rijksmuseum by Ab Hoving Bottles & Tumblers Building a 1/35th Harbor DefenseImagine being paid to pursue your hobby of model ship building in a famous museum holding hundreds of projects waiting to be worked on. Well, for twenty nine years Ab Hoving had that pleasure at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam where he was the head ship model builder and restorer. Ab and his team worked on exhibits in what is now the restored maritime gallery of this great museum. For those of you who do not know him, Ab is one of the foremost ship