Ship Modeling Simplified Tips And Techniques For Model Construction From Kits

Author : Frank Mastini
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9780071558679
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits written by Frank Mastini and published by International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press. This book was released on 1990-03-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ship Modeling Simplified, master model builder Frank Mastini puts to paper the methods he's developed over 30 years at the workbench to help novices take their first steps in an exciting pastime. You don't need the deftness of a surgeon or the vocabulary of an old salt to build a model. What you need is an understanding coach. Mastini leads readers from the mysteries of choosing a kit and setting up a workshop through deciphering complicated instructions and on to painting, decorating, and displaying finished models--with patience and clarity, not condescension. He reveals dozens of shortcuts: How to plank a hull "egg-shell tight"; how to build and rig complicated mast assmeblies without profanity; how to create sails that look like sails. . . . And along the way he points out things that beginners usually do wrong--beforehand, not after they've taken hammers to their projects. Ship Modeling Simplified even includes an Italian-English dictionary of nautical terms, the key to assembling the many high-quality Italian kits on the American market. Model building is fun, and not nearly as difficult as some experts would have you believe. Here is everything you'll ever need to get started in a hobby that will last a lifetime.

Author : Edwin B. Leaf
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780070368170
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits written by Edwin B. Leaf and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1993-10-22 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a model from a kit is an excellent way to develop your modeling skills. But once you've mastered the basics, where do you go? If you're looking for a challenge, you move on to scratchbuilding. And that can be imposing: With a kit, you worked with someone else's plans, materials, and building instructions. Scratchbuilding makes you master of your own fate. You do the research, choose the subject, the scale, the material. The choices are limited only by your enthusiasm. Edwin B. Leaf scratchbuilt his first model--a Baltimore clipper--nearly fifty years ago, and he's been refining and building on his skills ever since. In Ship Modeling from Scratch he lays out the principles--from concept to construction to display--on which scratchbuilding is based. In clear, concise language complemented by detailed illustrations he tells how to interpret existing drawings or create your own, what materials to choose, what tools to buy, and what techniques to use to build everything from plank-on-frame, plank-on-bulkhead, or modern steel hulls to creating sharp and properly scaled details--paint to portholes. Building a model from scratch is a singular pursuit that requires patience, confidence, and ingenuity. With Ship Modeling from Scratch open on your workbench, you have your own private tutor guiding you through the troublespots. Ship Modeling from Scratch expands the horizon of any kit builder looking for a challenge, including choosing the right subject finding and interpreting historical material building from plans drawing scaled plans from photographs buying tools and materials building everything from half models to plank-on-frame or plank-on-bulkhead versions of traditional sailing craft to modern steel cargo ships painting and displaying your model

Author : Milton Roth
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071777253
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern written by Milton Roth and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1988-02-22 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a well-known model builder, here are hints, tips, and techniques gallre. Roth covers the history of ships and model-ship building; discusses plans, sizes, conversions, and methods of construction. For ship modelers who want to improve the details and appearance of their models.

Author : Frank Mastini
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 0071818588
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits written by Frank Mastini and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1990-03-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ship Modeling Simplified, master model builder Frank Mastini puts to paper the methods he's developed over 30 years at the workbench to help novices take their first steps in an exciting pastime. You don't need the deftness of a surgeon or the vocabulary of an old salt to build a model. What you need is an understanding coach. Mastini leads readers from the mysteries of choosing a kit and setting up a workshop through deciphering complicated instructions and on to painting, decorating, and displaying finished models--with patience and clarity, not condescension. He reveals dozens of shortcuts: How to plank a hull "egg-shell tight"; how to build and rig complicated mast assmeblies without profanity; how to create sails that look like sails. . . . And along the way he points out things that beginners usually do wrong--beforehand, not after they've taken hammers to their projects. Ship Modeling Simplified even includes an Italian-English dictionary of nautical terms, the key to assembling the many high-quality Italian kits on the American market. Model building is fun, and not nearly as difficult as some experts would have you believe. Here is everything you'll ever need to get started in a hobby that will last a lifetime.

Author : Charles G. Davis
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486156214
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Built-Up Ship Model written by Charles G. Davis and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly detailed, superbly illustrated manual introducing serious model builders to hand-crafting ship models from the bottom up. Not for beginners. 133 illustrations.

Author : Ron McCarthy
Publisher : Anova Books
ISBN 13 : 9780851779911
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models written by Ron McCarthy and published by Anova Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'plank-on-frame' method is the pre-eminent ship modelling technique, which nearly all model shipwrights aspire to: this practical manual is the foremost guide to its intricacies. Taking as his example the two-masted sloop Cruiser of 1752, the author leads the reader through every stage of building a model of the vessel, from preliminary research and taking off lines to the actual construction of the hull and fittings, and its masting and rigging. Each clear, step-by-step stage is described in the text and illustrated with explanatory line drawings and photographs. Though a single ship is employed as an example, the techniques can equally well be applied to any wooden sailing ship. Since original publication in 1994 this volume has established itself as the standard work of reference for model hull construction and is indispensable for modelmakers who pride themselves on an accurate, elegant scratch-built technique.

Author : Wolfram zu Mondfeld
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781402721861
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Ship Models written by Wolfram zu Mondfeld and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States and Europe. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, and whether you have hours to spend on a project or years, you'll find money- and time-saving ideas on every page. Book jacket.

Author : Donald Dressel
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN 13 : 9780830628681
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planking Techniques for Model Ship Builders written by Donald Dressel and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 1988 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A Modeler's reference for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models.

Author : David Griffith
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783830433
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Models from Kits written by David Griffith and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past thirty years the world of model kits has undergone a veritable revolution. New techniques in injection moulding have improved the scale accuracy and surface detail of the humble plastic kit, while many specialist companies now produce top-quality resin models, vastly broadening the range of subjects on the market. However, the really radical change has been the advent of photo-etched brass fret, which allows the finest detail to be reproduced to scale. In ship modelling, this has resulted in a new form of the hobby, mid-way between traditional build-from-the-box simplicity and the time-consuming demands of fabricating everything from scratch. These new materials have prompted innovative techniques, which are comprehensively demonstrated in this new manual. Designed for those wishing to achieve the best results from their ship kits in the 1:700 to 1:350 range of scales, it uses step by step photographs to take the reader through the building of two models, one in plastic and one in resin, from basic construction, fittings and detailing, to painting, finishing and display. Written by a highly experienced, award-winning ship modeller, the book is a showcase for the contemporary approach to the hobby.

Author : Gene Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ship Model Building written by Gene Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Håndbog i bygning af modelskibe, med fyldig vejledning.