Building Plank On Frame Ship Models

Author : Ron McCarthy
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0851779913

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Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models by Ron McCarthy Pdf

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.

Author : Edwin B. Leaf
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993-10-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0070368171

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Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits by Edwin B. Leaf Pdf

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

Author : Frank Mastini
Publisher : International Marine/Ragged Mountain Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1990-03-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0071558675

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

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.

Author : Donald Dressel
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 0830628681

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Planking Techniques for Model Ship Builders by Donald Dressel Pdf

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. A Modeler's reference for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models.

Author : Kerry Jang
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781526777546

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Ship Models from the Age of Sail by Kerry Jang Pdf

The vast majority of period ship models are built from kits, usually primarily of wood with some ready-made fittings. Although these commercial offerings have improved significantly in recent years, all of them can be enhanced in accuracy or detail by an experienced modelmaker. This book, by an expert ship modeller, distils lessons gleaned from a lifetime practising the hobby to the highest standards, setting out methods of improving basic kits and gradually developing the skills and confidence to tackle the construction of a model from scratch. Using a variety of kits as the starting point, each chapter demonstrates a technique that can be readily improved or a feature that can be replaced to the advantage of the finished model. Topics include hull planking, representing copper sheathing, many aspects of more accurate masting and rigging, and how to replace kit parts and fittings from scratch. Ultimately, the impact of a period model depends on its accuracy, and the book also provides guidance on plans and references, where to find them and how they are best used. The plank-on-frame model, sometimes with exposed frames in the Navy Board style, has always been considered the crowning achievement of period ship modeling, and this book concludes with coverage of the very latest kits that put fully framed models within the reach of ordinary mortals. Offering advice, expertise and inspiration, Ship Models from the Age of Sail has something for anyone interested in building a period ship model, whatever their level of skill.

Author : William Henry Curtis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Shipbuilding
ISBN : UIUC:30112008348416

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The Elements of Wood Ship Construction by William Henry Curtis Pdf

Author : Milton Roth
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1988-02-22
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780071777254

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Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern by Milton Roth Pdf

From a well-known model builder, here are hints, tips, and techniques gallre. Roth covers the history of ships and model-ship building; discusses plans, sizes, conversions, and methods of construction. For ship modelers who want to improve the details and appearance of their models.

Author : Brian Lavery
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-30
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781473894822

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Wooden Warship Construction by Brian Lavery Pdf

“A wonderful book detailing the construction of the Royal Navy’s sailing warships” from the maritime historian and author of Nelson’s Navy (Pirates and Privateers). The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book takes a selection of the best models to both describe and demonstrate the development of warship construction in all its complexity from the beginning of the 18th century to the end of wooden shipbuilding. For this purpose, it reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full color, and including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features, which can be shown far more clearly than described. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. “This book includes plentiful visual representations of actual ships in model form and the accompanying graphics make for wonderful reading . . . I cannot express enough how enjoyable this book is to read.”—Spotter Up “A high-quality book which is recommended to all ship historians and modellers.”—Military Modelling

Author : Harold A. Underhill
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Models and modelmaking
ISBN : 085174186X

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Plank-on-frame Models and Scale Masting and Rigging: Scale hull construction by Harold A. Underhill Pdf

The Author's books on sailing ship history and construction are well known, as is the wide range of plans. The present book is founded on the experience of some fifty years of spare-time model building, and takes the reader right through its subject from the reading and interpretation of plans to mounting the finished model on its base.

Author : Harold A. Underhill
Publisher : Hyperion Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ship models
ISBN : 0851741746

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Plank-on-Frame Models and Scale Masting and Rigging by Harold A. Underhill Pdf

Scale mast and spar making, and complete rigging, is covered in great detail. VOL. II. CONTENTS: * Masting the Brigantine * Standing Rigging * running Rigging * Clinker-Built Models * Sawn-frame Construction. 160 pages, 248X 178 mm, 28 illustrations, 89 sketches and 5 plates. Also available: Vol 1

Author : Charles Gerard Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Shipbuilding
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050760883

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The Building of a Wooden Ship by Charles Gerard Davis Pdf

Author : V. R. Grimwood
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-23
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780486426129

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American Ship Models and How to Build Them by V. R. Grimwood Pdf

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.

Author : Douglas Brooks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1953225004

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Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding by Douglas Brooks Pdf

This is the story of the author's apprenticeships with Japanese masters to build five unique and endangered traditional boats. It is part ethnography, part instruction, and part the personal story of a wooden boatbuilder fueled by a passion to preserve a craft tradition on the brink of extinction. Over the course of 17 trips to Japan, Douglas Brooks traveled over 30,000 miles to seek out and interview Japan's elderly master boatbuilders; he built boats with five of them, all in their seventies and eighties, between 1996 and 2010. For most of them, Brooks was their sole and last apprentice. Part I introduces significant aspects of traditional Japanese boatbuilding: design, workshop and tools, wood and materials, joinery and fastenings, propulsion, ceremonies, and the apprenticeship system. Part II details each of his five apprenticeships, concluding with a poignant chapter on Japan's sole remaining traditional shipwright. This fascinating book fills a large and long-standing gap in the literature on Japanese crafts, and will be of interest to boatbuilders, woodworkers, and all those impressed with the marvels of Japanese design and workmanship.

Author : Roger Kopanycia
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781408151297

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Lofting a Boat by Roger Kopanycia Pdf

The second book in our Classic Boat series aimed at traditional boat lovers, builders and restorers. Lofting is an essential stage in the transition between designing and building a boat in order to turn the design plans into boat lines plans to measure off and build the full-size boat. Its a tricky art, but this book shows exactly how it is done in clear, step-by-step diagrammatic stages. Aimed specifically at the amateur DIY builder, it will enable anyone to build a boat of any size, whether power or sail. The author has been teaching lofting to boatbuilding students for over 10 years, and has found that the key to understanding is visualisation - hence the plethora of step-by-step diagrams in this book to assist the reader to grasp the concepts. Lofting will be welcomed by budding boatbuilders everywhere.

Author : Wolfram zu Mondfeld
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 1402721862

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Historic Ship Models by Wolfram zu Mondfeld Pdf

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.