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  • Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits

    Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits by Leaf, Edwin;

    Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits

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    Product details:

    • Publisher International Marine
    • Date of Publication 16 October 1993

    • ISBN 9780070368170
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages184 pages
    • Size 231x185x12 mm
    • Weight 358 g
    • Language English
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    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.

    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Chapter 1 Selecting a Project

    Chapter 2 Getting the Most from Your Drawings

    Chapter 3 Materials

    Chapter 4 Tools

    Chapter 5 Half-Models

    Chapter 6 Hull Construction

    Chapter 7 Miscellaneous Matters

    Chapter 8 Applying the Finish

    Chapter 9 Masting and Rigging

    Chapter 10 Sailmaking and Flags

    Chapter 11 Making Fittings and Furnishings

    Chapter 12 Displaying the Model

    Chapter 13 A Plank-on-Bulkhead Model from Start to Finish

    Chapter 14 A Plank-on-Frame Model from Start to Finish

    Chapter 15 Postscript

    Appendices

    I. Sources for Plans

    II. Reference Material

    III. Tools and Materials Sources

    IV. Glossary

    V. Working Drawings: Brockley Combe and Lee

    Index

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