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1	Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits more books like this by Frank Mastini, Mastini Frank add to wishlist In "Ship Modeling Simplified", master model builder Frank Mastini puts to paper the methods he's developed over 30 years at the workbench to help novices take their first steps in an exciting pastime. You don't need the deftness of a surgeon or the vocabulary of an old salt to build a model. What you need is an understanding coach. Mastini leads ... see all copies from $7.23! new only from $12.38! \| SVS
2	Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern more books like this by Milton Roth add to wishlist Written in an engaging, conversational style, this comprehensive guide leads the reader through every aspect of ship modeling, from how to scale-down plans and what glues and paints to use, to how to build a ship model in a bottle and where to turn for more help. see all copies from $7.31! new only from $13.47! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits more books like this by Edwin B Leaf add to wishlist Building a model from a kit is an excellent way to develop your modeling skills. But once you've mastered the basics, where do you go? If you're looking for a challenge, you move on to scratchbuilding. And that can be imposing: With a kit, you worked with someone else's plans, materials, and building instructions. Scratchbuilding makes you master ... see all copies from $5.76! new only from $11.78! \| SVS
4	The Built-Up Ship Model more books like this by Charles G Davis add to wishlist A classic in its field, THE BUILT-UP SHIP MODEL is an expert guide aimed at model builders with experience, patience, and a passion for building "the real thing". Photographs illustrate day-to-day work in progress. Over 100 drawings demonstrate correct implementation of the more complex instructions. In his introduction, the author chronicles the ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Ship Model Building more books like this by Gene Johnson add to wishlist This is a completely revised and enlarged edition of a work that has been accepted as the most complete exposition of model shipbuilding. The late Gene Johnson made this book unusual by its attention to minute and authentic detail. He supplied every needed diagram, more than a thousand, to supplement "know-how", and covered all possible pitfalls. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $41.53! \| first editions
6	The ship model builder's assistant more books like this by Charles G. Davis add to wishlist Indispensable for the serious model builder, this book offers hobbyists a true understanding of the masting, rigging, and most important fittings of American clipper ships and packet ships of the Great Age of Sail. It also represents a treasury of important information for naval and social historians, sailing enthusiasts and students of Americana. ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.02! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Planking Techniques for Model Ship Builders more books like this by Donald Dressel add to wishlist This is a modeler's reference for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models. see all copies from $4.00! new only from $9.37! \| first editions \| SVS
8	American ship models and how to build them more books like this by Victor Redmond Grimwood add to wishlist Easy-to-learn techniques, arranged in order of difficulty, range from relatively simple models to complicated square-riggers. Starting with the construction of a half-hull ship model, the book advances to a whole-hull model and replicas of twelve vessels, with separate chapters on rigging, gear and furniture, and tools and materials. see all copies from $2.85! new only from $9.62! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships more books like this by C Nepean Longridge add to wishlist The history of Admiral Horatio Nelson has been written from every possible angle, but this was not so with his ships. Not until this work was first published in 1961. Before then, such information as there was about the ships was buried in archives on Naval Architecture; only the top expert could have sifted it and present it in a usable form, Dr ... see all copies from $26.70! new only from $49.34! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The rigging of ships in the days of the spritsail topmast 1600-1720 more books like this by R. C. Anderson add to wishlist Describes and depicts in detail how 17th-century English, French, Dutch, and other European trading ships and warships were rigged. Over 350 fine line drawings, 25 halftones. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $8.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Ship Models: How to Build Them more books like this by Charles G Davis add to wishlist Complete, step-by-step instructions for building schooners, galleons, clipper ships, more. Includes scale plans for 1846 clipper ship "Sea Witch." Over 150 photographs. see all copies from $4.81! new only from $4.81! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	Toy Boats, 1870-1955: A Pictorial History from the Forbes Magazine Collection more books like this by Jacques Milet add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $70.88! \| signed copies \| first editions
13	Plank-On-Frame Models & Scale Masting & Rigging more books like this by Harold A Underhill add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! new only from $299.98! \| first editions
14 view cover	Building Plank-On-Frame Ship Models more books like this by Ron McCarthy add to wishlist The 'plank-on-frame' method is the pre-eminent ship modelling technique, which nearly all model shipwrights aspire to. Taking as his example the two-masted sloop Cruiser of 1752, the author leads the reader through every stage of building a model of the vessel, from preliminary research and taking off lines to the actual construction of the hull ... see all copies from $12.44! new only from $17.47! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The ship model builder's handbook : fittings & superstructures for the small ship more books like this by Tom Gorman add to wishlist This illustrated A to Z directory presents the visible fixtures, superstructure fittings and machinery of small merchant and fishing vessels under 76 metres in length. The handbook is written for dedicated maritime modellers. see all copies from $7.99! new only from $9.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	The New Period Ship Handbook more books like this by Keith Julier add to wishlist Back by popular demand, this newly revised edition of the acclaimed modeling series by Keith Julier offers a well-illustrated guide to the construction of static model sailing ships for both the beginner and experienced model maker. Nine of the eleven models have been replaced with different and updated ship kits. The models, ranging from the ... see all copies from $19.28! new only from $19.28! \| SVS
17 view cover	Cruising Chef Cookbook more books like this by Michael Greenwald add to wishlist The Cruising Chef Cookbook is the bestselling, most extensive sailors' cookbook ever written. Twenty-two years in print and ten reprints make it clear that sailors consider it essential equipment. The new Cruising Chef is actually a book of nautical wisdom in the guise of a cookbook. It contains hundreds of tips plus more than 300 delicious ... see all copies from $5.14! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Basics of Ship Modeling: The Illustrated Guide more books like this by Mike Ashey add to wishlist Hundreds of step-by-step photos guide you from basic assembly techniques to painting and weathering, detailing, masking, and display of your model ships. Now you can develop even the most expert skills! see all copies from $11.00! new only from $13.70! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Minature Ship Models: A History and Collector's Guide more books like this by Paul Jacobs add to wishlist see all copies from $45.64! new only from $45.64! \| SVS
20	Model Ships from Scratch more books like this by Scott Robertson add to wishlist Model ship building does not have to be an expensive hobby. The author of this book takes you on a journey through one of the oldest crafts - nowadays a hobby - and shows you how you can build an end product of fascination, history, skill and value using low-cost materials and a minimum of tools - "from scratch" in fact. The book begins by ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $11.99!
21 view cover	Working Scale Model Merchant Ships more books like this by Tom Gorman add to wishlist A comprehensive guide to the building and sailing of working scale model merchant ships, this new manual covers the spectrum of ship types -- from tankers to trawlers to paddle-steamers. Every stage of construction is covered in full detail, beginning with the building of the hull and concluding with propulsion, ballasting, and sailing the ... see all copies from $17.95! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
22	The model shipbuilding handbook more books like this by Brick Price add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| first editions
23	The handicrafts of the sailor more books like this by Steven Banks add to wishlist see all copies from $4.94! first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Small radio control boats more books like this by Glynn Guest add to wishlist A detailed description of how to make and operate a range of small scale radio control boats. There are nine model projects including: a Thames tug boat; a fishing trawler; a US Navy self-propelled derrick; an RNLI lifeboat; a racing speed boat; and a Vietnam War US landing craft. see all copies from $11.99! new only from $12.82! \| first editions
25 view cover	Building Model Warships: Of the Iron and Steel Eras more books like this by Peter Beisheim (Editor) add to wishlist From nineteenth-century ironclads to the largest American carrier, this heavily-illustrated volume is a treasuretrove of information on modeling warships. Each of the ten chapters is written by a recognized expert who examines the challenges of recreating scale replicas ranging from static miniatures through large-scale working models. A sampling ... see all copies from $13.40! new only from $13.40! \| first editions

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