Thunderer: Building a Model Dreadnought

Mowll, William

ISBN 10: 1848320590 / ISBN 13: 9781848320598

Published by Seatforth Publishing, 2010

About this Item

Oversized hardcover with glossy pictorial dust jacket. DJ is glossy and clean. Book is bound in gray cloth over boards with gold lettering down the spine. Corners are square. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. 160 pages. Seatforth Publishing. No publication date on title page. Copyright page is dated 2010. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Thunderer: Building a Model Dreadnought
• Publisher: Seatforth Publishing
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848320590
• ISBN 13: 9781848320598
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

HMS Thunderer was the third Orion class battleship, one of the Super Dreadnoughts built to counter German naval expansion, and was laid down one hundred years ago in April 1910. At 22,200 tons she was the largest ship ever built on the Thames but she was to be responsible for the bankruptcy of her builders, the Thames Iron Works. The author s 1/96 scale museum-quality model of this ship reflects the massive engineering of the prototype and brings to life the power and potency of the Super Dreadnoughts. Every aspect of the building is covered, from the hull to wireless equipment, and all the different techniques required to bring a complex model battleship to completion are clearly explained, including casting in metal and GRP, silver brazing, soft soldering, metal fabrication in steel, brass, copper, aluminium and pewter, and lathe turning and milling operations for the production of guns and propellers. The author also covers the contemporary American battleship, USS Texas, the only remaining ship of that class and era, and an inspiration for any modeller setting out to tackle this subject. Not just a superb how to manual, the book is also an eloquent testimony to the skills of the designers and the original builders as well as a wonderful evocation of the great ships that fought at the battle of Jutland.

About the Author

William Mowll has been building large-scale ship models for more than twenty-five years and is the author of Building a Working Model Warship.