the Bounty? er right?

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

QUOTE: Originally posted by boscotdg 50% of the doctors in the world graduated from medical school in the lower half of their class

Never looked at this way... SCARY