
His reasoning for large models is to give people the opportunity to see these historic ships with much more detailing than one can see on small plastic models. He also loves the challenge; on rare occasions he has been known to do contract work, but only if it's something he can really put a lot of detail in.
The collection found here at Original Benjamin's may in fact be the largest collection of large model ships. Jimmy also plans to expand the collection even more with a series of pirate ships, though they won't be quite as large due to space.