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  • Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits

    Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits by Mastini, Frank;

    Series: INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher International Marine
    • Date of Publication 16 March 1990

    • ISBN 9780071558679
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages176 pages
    • Size 238x195x10 mm
    • Weight 268 g
    • Language English
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    Long description:

    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.

    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.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction

    Part I: Setting Up Shop

    Selecting a Kit

    Making Your Choice

    What to Look for in A Model

    Building a Workplace

    Part II: Building the Hull

    Sequence for Building the Hull

    Assembling Bulkhead-on-Keel Hulls

    Gunports

    Planking the Hull and Deck

    Planking the Hull--The First Layer

    Handling Items on Deck

    Setting the Hull on the Display Base

    Part III: Masting and Rigging

    Getting Started

    Masting and Rigging Sequence

    Building Masts

    Rigging the Spars

    Stepping the Masts and Bowsprit

    Rigging it All to the Hull

    Part IV: Finishing Her Up

    Boats, Anchors, Paint, and Flags

    Italian-English Dictionary

    Useful Terms

    Suggested Reading List

    Index

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