Souvenir

Children playing with toys, architects using miniature models, hobbyists creating realistic, albeit romanticized railway landscapes, do they not all ultimately have the same motive? They use small effigies to anticipate, practice, control, understand, what is otherwise to big, difficult, unknown or threatening.
They sell different toys here in Asia. In this case a heavy Japanese cruiser from the same class as the Haguro, that sunk the Admiraal de Ruiter in WWII, taking my grandfather with it. Will gluing this thing together give me any insights about a man I never knew, or the way he came to his end? It might, even. But not to the extent that I don't have more important things to do. It is still in it's box.