Encore USS Olympia: Finished.

Haven't thought of it like that, it's actually based on a sculpture of the Olympia,done in scrapmetals, thanks for the thought. 

Here's the cover:Here's the only shot I have of the Olympia.  It was taken from a book I have from the 1890s.  Hope it helps, this book is very old so the picture is not the best.

Here's the cover:

Nice thought had I gone conventionally,thanks. That a first edition,rare?

These booke ase both original and after over 100 years, not in the best shape.  Glue only lasts for so long.  As far as I know they didn't make that many of them.  They probably were a souvenier book you could pick up at fleet week or something like that.  I have another book titled "Your New United States Navy" that was printed only a year or two (I think) from that one.

Between the two on them they cover all types of ships from Battleships down to monitor, and I think torpedo rams or something like that.  The Maine is in at lest one or maybe both books and when looking at some of these designs, I don't think I would go near one if it wasn't tied up somewhere.  Brave guys, but these were cutting edge back then, at least some were.

I have got to start finding reliable homes for some of the things I have sitting around here, scrap books from Vietnam and so on.