The Master Scratch Builders: Tips and Techniques from the Master Aircraft Modelers (Schiffer Military History) - Hardcover

ALCORN, JOHN S.

 
9780764307959: The Master Scratch Builders: Tips and Techniques from the Master Aircraft Modelers (Schiffer Military History)

Synopsis

This book examines aircraft models by twenty outstanding practitioners from around the world, and provides detailed coverage of their often widely varying techniques. Each includes color photos of the featured model, plus numerous detail construction illustrations. Other chapters explain advanced finishing technique, vacuforming, model subject research, and tools/supplies/materials required for this arcane craft. While emphasis is upon aircraft from the two World Wars, the 1920s and 1930s are also represented by military, commercial, civil and racing aircraft. This is not only a book of surpassing visual excitement for the aviation/modelling enthusiast, but an invaluable technique resource.

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About the Author

Illustrator John Alcorn worked as a commercial artist and designer for Esquire, Push Pin Studios, and CBS Inc., and illustrated numerous children's books in the 1960s and '70s.

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