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| Welcome to my web site highlighting my passion for building wooden ship models. My name is Raul Guzman Jr. |
| I have been building models for about 22 years and now that I have retired from a career of teaching Texas History, I have time to build to my heart's content. I have built around 42 ship models or models dealing with certain aspects of a ship. My models are in various scales (lately more at 1/48 scale) and are made using various hardwoods. I have taken 17 of my models to contests and they have won, at last count, 75 awards over the years in scale model contests in San Antonio, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Grapevine and Port Arthur. On this page are some of the models that I have built in the last twelve years and some of the ones you can see on my website. |
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I am now a little more than one year into making web pages, and I am always working on some project, so I'm certain that my web site will greatly evolve as time passes. I am currently building a clipper ship for a client. My plank on frame wooden ship model of the USS Essex in 1/64 scale and Essex Collection are for the moment on hold until I complete my commission. Most of the models I have built are for my own pleasure, but I have built models for the Museum of South Texas History and the Texas Maritime Museum. If you wish to contact me about purchasing one of my models or would like me to build one for you, call me at my home at (956) 682-0754 or write me at guzmanshipmodels@gmail.com. Feel free to contact me just to talk, question or comment about my wooden ship models if you wish. If you happen to come to the Rio Grande Valley of Texas, let me know and we will see if it is possible for you to visit my gallery at my home in McAllen, Texas. I hope you enjoy my site. Raul Guzman Jr. |
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