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End of an era for 92-year-old model maker
It's the end of an era at The Nothe Fort in Weymouth, where Philip Warren has been displaying his matchstick armada for the last 30 years.
He's dedicated his entire adult life to crafting the armada and has built every class of ship in the Royal Navy since 1945, using more than a million matchsticks.
But now Phillip has decided to call it a day, saying "the fingers aren't as nimble and the eyes aren't quite as sharp''.
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