{"product_id":"ships-in-scale-jul-aug-2026","title":"Ships In Scale - Jul\/Aug 2026","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShips in Scale — July\/August 2026 (Vol. 29, No. 4)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom a hand-built Irish workboat to a century-old America's Cup model brought back to life — with a Russian cruiser built entirely from paper along the way.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTraditional scratch building, museum-grade restoration, paper modeling, wargaming-scale rigging, and even AI-generated flags. 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