Nguyen Chi Thanh, a twelfth grader in HCMC’s outlying district of Cu Chi, has a cheap hobby to build scale model battleships from scrap carton paper.

Thanh has now successfully developed a huge scale model fleet comprising an aircraft carrier, 15 warships and a lot of fighter jets.

He is dreaming of entering the Military Technical Academy in Hanoi to turn his warship building ideas into reality.

Model ships made from scrap carton paper       Thanh prepares battleship designs. Apart from learning model warship basics on the Internet, Thanh has also had his own battleship and fighter jet model designs