Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits (INTERNATIONAL MARINE-RMP)
£14.20
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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Additional information
| Publisher | International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press, 70th ed. edition (1 Oct. 1993) |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 192 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780070368170 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0070368170 |
| Dimensions | 18.54 x 1.27 x 23.11 cm |
by M. C. Williams
As a model builder – from kits – I purchased this tome to help me should I become hampered in assembling my models. What I failed to realise is this book is aimed at those modellers who are constructing their vessels from whatever they can find laying around!
Although it has no direct impact on my pursuits, it has proved excellent in providing a deeper understanding of the techniques in construction, many of which DO get replicated in the construction of model kits!
by Terry W.
Very good book for those who wish to build from scratch and not kits. Some very good advice and tips included. My one and only complaint is that when I opened the book the first page started on page 9. So it is missing pages 1 to 8
by Happy-snapper
This book was bought as a present for my husband who is interested in woodwork, he hasn’t used it as such yet, but says after looking thro it that it has some good information and tips, He likes to make his own model boats and airplanes out of wood.
by R. W. Hughes
My plan is to make model ships, when I retire, in eighteen months time. I have quite few books on how to make model ships. I also have one kit that was started and abandoned and another yet to come out of the box. I also have several sets of plans. Guess I should make a start! This book is full of handy hints and is written in a straight forward manner. I hope to put the advice into pratice soon.
by Peter Tabb
A very vaulable tome and my only reason for not awarding five stars is that whilke very comprehensive it is a little short on technique. Otherwise a very valuable addition to the model shipwright’s bookshelf.
by Lou van Wijhe
It contains quite a lot of useful information for model builders who want to go further than building from kits. I suppoose that even experienced scratch model builders can find some new ideas in it. I liked it.
by Dennis Robbins
Another worthy book to read.
by Michael Atkinson
Lots of interesting methods and guidence