Toni Levine
Wayne, Illinois
To scratchbuild the British sloop HMS Swallow as it looked in 1779, Toni obtained the original vessel’s plans from the Royal Museum Greenwich and developed a concept of how to model it in CAD. She built the plank-on-bulkhead model using Costelo boxwood for the clinker hull planking, and the deck is holly with bamboo treenails and added accents with pear and cherry.