Ship Modeling from Scratch : Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits
Language: English
Published by International Marine / McGraw-Hill, Camden, ME, 1994
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Great Expectations Rare Books, Staten Island, NYC, NY, U.S.A.Great Expectations Rare Books
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Condition: Used - Very good
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Large paperback. 184 pages. Appendices, Index. Illustrated throughout with line drawings and several black and white photographs. Second Printing. An excellent primer for the modeling enthusiast who desires to move from kit to full on scratch building. No previous ownership marks. No spine crease. A tight, clean, fresh and unmarked copy. Very good+.
Seller Inventory # 022433
- Title
- Ship Modeling from Scratch : Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits
- Author
- Leaf, Edwin B.
- Publisher
- International Marine / McGraw-Hill, Camden, ME
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good+
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 087742389X
- ISBN 13
- 9780877423898
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Item weight
- 1.5 pounds
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Seller catalogs
- Arts and Crafts, Nautical / Maritime
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From the Back Cover
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
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