Ships Models
USS Oklahoma was commissioned by some prominent citizens in Bartelsville, Oklahoma, on the occasion of the anniversary of Oklahoma’s statehood. The model slightly over six feet long and can be seen at the Wall of Honor museum in downtown Bartelsville.
By the time James was a young teen he had built a large fleet of fully ballasted ship models. At the age of fifteen he used a small scale Revel model of USS Arizona to initiate his project of building a four-foot model of USS Pennsylvania. It was far from perfect as he knew what changes had to be made but did not have the precise measurements. ..
James dreamt a long time of the ship and finally, in 1984, his circumstances were stable enough for him to apply himself to the great project of scratch building a 5 foot model of the beautiful British battle cruiser, HMS Repulse. When she was newly built, James entered her into a Eastern Airline Employee’s art show where she won first prize and landed him a job in the art department.