Here is his letters to russian shipmodellers.

Dear Alexander,
Here is the photo you asked for.

During a lifetime of ship modelling, beginning in the early years after World War II as restorer of damaged museum exhibits and having had hand-on experience of designing and creating new exhibits for at least a dozen international museums I have worked on a spectrum of models from the pre-Viking period to modern warships, super tanker, river vessels and special craft. By designing historic ship model kits half a century ago I brought many thousands worldwide in to the hobby of ship model building. My first contact with Russian ship models was 1953 when I restored 2 two-hundred-year old models from the collection at Castle Eutin / Holstein. It gave me a good insight into Russian model making around 1750; since then I got to know quite a few Russian made ship models and am convinced that the standard of these models is at par with the best in the rest of the world. I can only say keep up the good work. Russia has since Peter the Great an excellent naval tradition and your model makers are the standard-bearers to uphold that tradition.
My father once told me as a boy: “Ship model making is like an incurable illness after you have caught it you will never loose it”. Serious ship modelling is also living with history, it makes one understand and appreciate the art and crafts of our forebears. Large ships were at any time the most intricate machines of their epoch and it were ships (not men alone) who opened up the world.
Good modelling to all Russian model friends
Your
Karl Heinz Marquardt
Marine Artist, Ship Model Maker, Author