LLOYD McCAFFERY has devoted his life to the creation of the most detailed and exquisite works at small scales that is possible for the human mind to imagine. Trained as an artist and sculptor, his works in the ship model field have long been collected by serious connoisseurs of the genre, and set the standard for other modelers. His ever-expanding range of subjects include miniature dinosaur skeletons, carousel horses, stagecoaches, and ships' figurehead sculptures.
The woods used are smooth, hard, fine-grained fruitwoods. The tools include air turbine dental engines, jeweler's tweezers, and a number of miniature versions of planes, chisels, and knives custom made to give exacting results.

Lloyd's work has been featured in several publications, among them WoodenBoat, Miniature Collector, Yankee, Wildlife Art News, Sea History, Wildfowl Carving and Collecting, In Marin, Fine Woodworking, Connoisseur, and Showboats International. He has written articles for Model Shipwright and the Nautical Research Journal. His book, “Ships in Miniature”, was published in 1988 by Conway Maritime Press of London.

His miniature model of the PRINCE was featured in The New York Times Magazine in November of 1990. Just 3 ½" long, it was built up plank-on-frame, and incorporated 100 turned cannons with the muzzles bored out. The hatch gratings were built up just as on the actual ship. The PRINCE sold through the Maritime Gallery at Mystic Seaport for $100,000 setting a world record for a contemporary ship model. In 1991, Lloyd's work was featured on The Osgood File with Charles Osgood during the CBS Morning News.

Many of Lloyd's works are in the permanent collections of museums - Mystic Seaport, the Japan-America Amity Hall in Kushimoto, Japan, and the Columbia River Maritime Museum. Numerous works are in private collections around the world.

Lloyd continues to challenge himself with ever-expanding projects and new approaches. He believes his work can inspire as well as inform, and he looks forward to creating additional miniature jewels in the future.

17th Century Shallop
with exposed hull 1" = 4'
($5,800) with case