By Anna Edwards PUBLISHED: 15:27 EST, 18 October 2012 | UPDATED: 02:05 EST, 19 October 2012 A magnificent model of HMS Victory that is said to be the most accurate ever made is tipped to sell for £30,000. Dedicated modeller Tim Davies spent more than 10 years on the painstaking project which he meticulously researched. The result is a 2ft long, 1:96 scale model of Lord Nelson’s flagship that has the tiny figures of the naval hero and Captain Thomas Hardy stood on the poop deck. A magnificent model of Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory that is said to be the most accurate ever made is tipped to sell for £30,000
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2ft long, 1:96 model took pensioner more than 10 years to build
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Sails contain 20,000 stitches
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Depicts ship as she was on Jan 19, 1805 precisely at 3.45pm
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At that time, Nelson was about to chase the French across the Med, culminating in Battle of Trafalgar
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