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This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to building, rigging, and sailing model boats. Written in clear, simple language and full of helpful illustrations and detailed diagrams, this book is ideal for the novice model builder, and will be of considerable utility to those with a practical interest in building model boats. The chapters of this book include: “Methods of Construction”, “Methods Applicable to Any Model”, “Modelling the Ark Royal”, “Materials Required”, “Making the Hull on the Laminated System”, “Shaping the Hull”, “The Bulwarks”, “Masts and Rigging”, etcetera. Many antiquarian books such as this are increasingly hard to come by and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing this book now in an affordable, high quality edition. It comes complete with a specially commissioned introduction on model building.
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inclination.
Comparative Costs
Practically speaking, all ship models can be grouped into three classes; first, the showcase,
or decorative variety, that are never put into water; secondly, all types of sailing models for use on ponds or the sea-coast; thirdly, all types of power-driven craft, using clockwork, steam or electricity as motive power.
Methods of Construction
There are several distinctly different methods of building any of the ship models mentioned above. Those most suited to amateur construction are the solid block,
the laminated
and the rib and plank
or built
systems.
The solid block method is generally used for decorative and show models and for working models about 30 in. or less in length.
Rib- and plank-built hulls of 36 in. or greater length are very desirable for high-class racing models; and a modification of the system known as built
is one of the best for the smaller power-driven models.
Representative examples of each are progressively dealt with in the following pages.
Methods applicable to any Model
It should be noted that various phases of model boat building are common to any type of boat; hence in this chapter such methods are detailed when they first arise, and only mentioned briefly in later models. Readers should therefore refer back for fuller particulars; for example, the method of building a hull for a sailing ship model can be adapted for a steamship—the only practical difference is the shape or lines
of the hull and the proportions of its parts.
MODELLING THE ARK ROYAL
The Ark Royal is generally assumed to have been the flagship of
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