Very good blue cloth, one library stamp on the title page, ffep cut out. Dust jacket is very good, in a mylar cover. Step-by-step descriptions in text and illustrations on how to build plank-on-frame ship models.

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Title: Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models
Publisher: Conway Maritime Press, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1994
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0851776299
ISBN 13: 9780851776293
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

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Building 'plank-on-frame' is the pre-eminent ship modelling technique which nearly all model shipwrights aspire to. This practical manual is intended as the foremost guide to all its intricacies.

Taking as his example the two-masted sloop of 1752, the Cruiser, the author leads the reader though 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, and for this reason the book is an essential tool for model makers - beginners and the experienced alike.

Ron McCarthy was a professional model maker since he left school at the age of 14. In the Second World War, he built 100ft to the inch Admiralty recognition vessels, and was a member of the team which built Mulberry Harbour.?

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Ron McCarthy became a professional model maker after he left school at the age of 14. In the Second World War, he built 100-foot-to-the inch Admiralty recognition vessels and was a member of the team that built Mulberry Harbor.

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