The Built-Up Ship Model

by Charles G. Davis

Book Overview

This highly detailed, superbly illustrated manual introduces serious model builders to the hand crafting of ship models from the bottom up, exactly as real ships were traditionally built in shipyards. Clearly, and with painstaking care, every step of construction is explained, from laying the keel to the last details of masting and rigging.
For this book, the author chose as a model the 16-gun United States brig Lexington, a merchant...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486261743
• ISBN13: 9780486261744
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Good reference

I use this book at least once a month >>> therefore, a 5 star item!