“With the ships and bottles, they stem from my interest as a youth in making model ships. I started out making plastic ones and then later on I started making wooden ships,” Goodwin said.

Jim Goodwin has been fitting ships in bottles for decades, and he walks through the patience, skills, and dedication required to take on this fascinating maritime crafting tradition.

As injection-molded plastic rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s, Tamiya made the move to the new technology, and the first plastic Tamiya kits began to appear on store shelves in Japan.