Marine Log - March 2008 - (Page 44) SHIPREPLICAS BY SHIRLEY DEL VALLE MODELS OF PERFECTION Randy Skinner is back, this time for good Randy Skinner is a busy man these days. Then again, he has always been a busy man. In 1976 while the shrimping off-season was in full swing, a 20 year old Skinner built an exact replica of a fellow shrimper’s boat, which he sold for $300. Ten years later, his passion for building the model size replicas, which began when he was five, turned into a career when he founded his own model replica-building company, Scale Reproductions, Fair Hope, Ala. Skinner sold the company in 2001 and went back to his shrimping roots. But when money wasn’t being made and the yearning to once again build models started creeping in, Skinner decided to go back in 2006 to model building. His new company, Skinner Models, Inc., is at a temporary location while his new 5,000 ft2 shop, which will be just two miles from Skinner’s original company’s location, is being completed. In all, Skinner has managed the construction of over 1,100 one-of-a-kind maritime scale models of every type of vessel. The new shop will feature five full time employees, four who worked with Skinner in his original company. He says of his crew, “My crew in the shop have the same passion [as I do for building models] and it shows in their work ethic. The time cards Skinner’s model of a tug currently being built by Steiner Shipyard show it. On any week, look at any card and the employees will be in the shop at 4:30 am. They have done this for as long as I can remember. The entire crew loves building model boats.” The shop features a Laser Cutter, which 44 MARINE LOG MARCH 2008 www.marinelog.com http://www.resolvemarinegroup.com http://www.securewest.com http://www.securewest.com http://www.resolvemarinegroup.com http://www.marinelog.com
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