Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Building from Kits - Softcover

Mastini, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877422729 ISBN 13: 9780877422723

Publisher: Intl Marine Pub Co, 1990

Synopsis

Tells how to select a kit and set up a model making workplace, demonstrates the techniques for building the hull, masts, and rigging, and shows how to add the finishing touches

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

About the Author

Frank Mastini acquired a lifelong curiosity about the sea and its historic sailing vessels as a younster in Italy. A graduate of the Italian Naval Academy, Mastini honed his seamanship skills aboard the 270-foot, square-rigged training vessel, Amerigo Vespucci.

He began his professional model building career in 1961, developing a clientele of collectors for whom he still builds on commission. Mastini recently finished a scratch-built model of the Mary and John, a ship that carried a group of Pilgrims from England to Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1630. He is the author of a series of articles for Ships in Scale magazine and is in frequent demand as a coach for beginning modelers.

When not on the telephone discussing modeling problems, Mastini can be found at his Hartsdale, New York, workbench, enjoying retirement.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intl Marine Pub Co
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877422729
• ISBN 13: 9780877422723
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 161