Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models

McCarthy, Ron

ISBN 10: 1557500916 / ISBN 13: 9781557500915

Published by Naval Institute Press, 1994

About this Item

Some creasing and wear on jacket edge. Rubbing on jacket panels. Some highlighting to text. Bumping on top board corners and spine head.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building Plank-on-Frame Ship Models
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557500916
• ISBN 13: 9781557500915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Seller catalogs:
  • Craft

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Synopsis

Intended as a basic, practical manual for building all plank-on-frame models, this book takes as its example the Royal Navy's two-masted sloop, "Cruiser" of 1752. It leads the reader through every stage of building a model from preliminary research, through taking off lines, to the construction of the model and eventual display. Photographs of the author's model, taken during its building and explanatory line drawnigs are used extensively to describe each stage of the process.

About the Author

The late Ron McCarthy had been a professional modelmaker since leaving school at the age of 14. His first job during the Second World War was building 100ft-to-the-inch Admirally recognition vessels. He was also a member of the team which built the model of the Mulberry Harbour. After the war he worked for a number of years building shipbuilders' models. He built many sailing ship models and was a regular contributor to the journal Model Shipwright.