This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to building old-fashioned model ships and 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 ships. The chapters of this book include: "Some Famous Old Ships", "Building Old-Time Ship Models", "Making a Waterline Model of a Carrack", "Making Scenic Models", "Hulls and their Construction", ...
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This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to building old-fashioned model ships and 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 ships. The chapters of this book include: "Some Famous Old Ships", "Building Old-Time Ship Models", "Making a Waterline Model of a Carrack", "Making Scenic Models", "Hulls and their Construction", "Modelling the Royal Albert", "Building the Stern Gallery", "Making the Masts and Spars", 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, modern, high quality edition - complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on model building.
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Add this copy of How to Make Old Time Ship Models to cart. $13.61, fair condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Baltimore rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Halethorpe, MD, UNITED STATES, published by Brown, Son & Ferguson.
Add this copy of How to Make Old Time Ship Models to cart. $127.50, like new condition, Sold by Books and Music rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Brighton, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1971 by Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd.
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Fine in very good dust jacket. How to Make Old Time Ship Models Hobbs Revised Edition 1972. Hardcover, dust jacket price clipped, remains of staple top of inside flap, ½ chip missing rear of dust jacket, foxing on outside of rear dust jacket, with all five very large folding plates present, one inside rear cover, in new condition except for plate 4 (1/2 tear), with 175 in-text black/white illustrations one of the Royal Albert in the Preface to the Second Edition, built by Wm. Christie at age of 71 years, and his first attempt at ship modelling, line drawings (Figs. 1-175), with frontis. photograph (The Royal Albert circa A.D. 1700), Preface to first, second and third editions (pp. v-xv1), chapter on Some Famous Old Ships (Chap. 1), Index (pp. 205-208). Shipped in bubble wrap with tracking. FRONT 4-B
