Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits Paperback - 1994 - 1st Edition
by Leaf, Edwin B
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- Title Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits
- Author Leaf, Edwin B
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher International Marine, Camden, Maine
- Publication date 1994
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Glossary, Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # 83649w161
- ISBN 9780070368170 / 0070368171
- Weight 0.73 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 7.36 x 0.49 in (23.44 x 18.69 x 1.24 cm)
- Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Category Crafts / Hobbies
- Library of Congress subjects Ship models
- Dewey Decimal Code 623.820
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From the rear 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
