Scale: about 1:96. Full hull model of a destroyer (circa 1942). A model about which we know little, but is nevertheless interesting as it is unfinished made from tin-plate or, more specifically, from dried milk cans. The instructions for making up the contents can still be read on the unrolled sheet metal that now forms the model’s hull. The sheets, that are not to scale, have been riveted and soldered. The only detail to speak of is the rudder and twin propeller shafts with their mountings. It was, at one time, fitted with an electric motor driving the shafts through bevelled gears, though this equipment is no longer present. The copper-sheet decks have been laid, fore and aft. The model is traditionally believed to depict an ‘S’-class destroyer.