HUGE, LIGHTED. COPPER CLAD 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas NAUTILUS - SPECIAL EDITION
FULLY BUILT AND READY TO DISPLAY MUSEUM QUALITY SHIP MODEL
- BEAUTIFUL HIGH DETAIL, MUSEUM QUALITY MODEL
- Dimension approx.: 54″L x 10″W x 15″H
- HANDCRAFTED PURE COPPER CLAD HULL containing hundreds of individual copper tiles
- Top museum quality, largest scale handmade in the market
- All hand built from wood and copper, no plastic
- Individually handcrafted/shaped copper tiles cover outside of the model
- This beautiful model is completely built, NOT a kit.
- Handcrafted from finest wood and metal fittings.
- Open die cut side hull windows, NOT painted like those built by most other companies.
- The model is 100% hand-built from scratch by the coutnry's top artisan
- RARE opportunity as VERY few of these ever built
Nautilus Submarine Model from “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea”
This is copperclad, museum quality model of the Nautilus from the famous books of Jules Verne and movie “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea”. This model was handcrafted, highly detailed model was built from scratch by the lountry's leading craftsman. He used historical photographs, drawings, and original plans using top quality wood such as teak, mahogany, and copper. This was built by the county's top craftsman. It is precisely crafted wiith 100's of individual copper pieces joined together, not many artists dare to do that and few can do it with such perfection.
This piece of art has detailed interior and is lighted inside. Building this museum quality Nautilus requires more than 500 of hours to finish and went through a strict and demanding quality control standards before leaving our workshop. The model is mounted on a solid wood base and ready to display.
Nautilus is described by Verne as “a masterpiece containing masterpieces”. It is designed and commanded by Captain Nemo. This ship is the fictional submarine, featured in Jules Verne’s novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), The Mysterious Island (1874) and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Verne named the Nautilus after Robert Fulton’s real-life submarine Nautilus (1800). Three years before writing his novel, Jules Verne also studied a model of the newly developed French Navy submarine Plongeur at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, which inspired him for his definition of the Nautilus. This submarine is designed double-hulled and is further separated into water-tight compartments. Its top speed is 50 knots. Its displacement is 1,356.48 French freight tons emerged (1,507 submerged).
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