Tall Tales from the Ocean Floor The Marvel of Big Model Boats So, you find yourself drawn to a ship in a bottle, the kind that's become the ship in your mind, but there's nothing micro about these vessels. Welcome to a world where galleons float across the floor—big model boats that command more space than your latest NFT collection and rival your regiment of sneakers. Imagine the great Armada invading not your shelf, but your living room, and this time, they're not here to clash with Sir Francis Drake but to jive with your street art collection. The audacity of a big model boat in a room is like inviting a pirate to your house party; you don’t know if it's going to drink all your rum or teach you how to swashbuckle your way through life. There's a nostalgic punch to these wooden wonders, a reminder of times when adventure didn't mean scrolling through social media, but setting sail and hoping for the best—minus the scurvy and the tempest, of course. If these boats could talk, they’d spin yarns of their own creation. The HMS Behemoth, for instance, might regale you with tales of its time as centerpiece...