Model ship building from construction plans

Model ship building from construction plans

Author: Günther Slansky

Publisher: Verlag für Technik und Handwerk

Published:

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13:

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Model ships from kits are an excellent introduction to this fascinating hobby. But at some point, the attraction of building a unique model based on a construction plan almost always wins out. In this book, Günther Slansky describes general building techniques and solutions for recurring components, equipment, assemblies, and special equipment, such as winches, soldered assemblies, funnels, hatches, skylights, masts, driving positions and guns. An indispensable guide for model ship builders and model ship enthusiasts, but also a textbook for those readers wishing to enter the hobby. From the content: • Basics of model ship building • Workshop, tools, machines • Building process, preliminary work, construction method and building method • The propulsion and rudder system • Prefabricated hull or self-built • Box hull, articulated hull, round hull, and round frame planking • General superstructures and equipment • The advantages of the assembly method • The house construction • Special equipment and details on deck • Soldered parts and assemblies • Interior fittings and design of the open decks • Ship's weapons: Light, medium, and heavy artillery


Ship Modeling Simplified

Ship Modeling Simplified

Author: Frank Mastini

Publisher: International Marine Publishing

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780877422723

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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.


Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models

Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models

Author: Ron McCarthy

Publisher: Anova Books

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780851779911

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The 'plank-on-frame' method is the pre-eminent ship modelling technique, which nearly all model shipwrights aspire to: this practical manual is the foremost guide to its intricacies. Taking as his example the two-masted sloop Cruiser of 1752, the author leads the reader through 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. Since original publication in 1994 this volume has established itself as the standard work of reference for model hull construction and is indispensable for modelmakers who pride themselves on an accurate, elegant scratch-built technique.


The Built-Up Ship Model

The Built-Up Ship Model

Author: Charles G. Davis

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-08-09

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 0486156214

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A highly detailed, superbly illustrated manual introducing serious model builders to hand-crafting ship models from the bottom up. Not for beginners. 133 illustrations.


Historic Ship Models

Historic Ship Models

Author: Wolfram zu Mondfeld

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005-04

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781402721861

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The United States and Europe. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, and whether you have hours to spend on a project or years, you'll find money- and time-saving ideas on every page. Book jacket.


American Ship Models and How to Build Them

American Ship Models and How to Build Them

Author: V. R. Grimwood

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-06-23

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0486426122

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Easy-to-learn techniques, arranged in order of difficulty, range from relatively simple models to complicated square-riggers. Starting with the construction of a half-hull ship model, the book advances to a whole-hull model and replicas of twelve vessels, with separate chapters on rigging, gear and furniture, and tools and materials.


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

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

Author: Edwin B. Leaf

Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

Published: 1993-10-22

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780070368170

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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. 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