He designed and made many of the hand and machine tools on the shelves and benches of his workshop. It may take two days to conceive and build the tool he needs to form a particular cleat, then just half an hour to snake each of 20 cleats that will be used in a model. When one doesn't work out, you go back, devise a better way and do it again. Wadleigh is not inclined to use pre-cast fixtures in his models. Then you can't say you did it all.
Models are accurate inside as well as out.
You can't hide anything. As a connoisseur of fine boat models, Wadleigh has his preferences when it comes to their size. He likes a model that's 14 or 16 to 20 inches long. Some models can be too small. Shelves in the shop contain the woods he works with.