In 1919, Central of Georgia Railway commissioned Gallettini to build a model of the Steamship Savannah. The resulting model was more than 7 feet long and was a scale replica.

Eighty years after the USS Nevada was bombed at Pearl Harbor, a nearly 40-foot-long replica scale model of the ship used in the 1970 film “Tora! Tora! Tora” sits in a Wilmington warehouse on ...