Ship Modeling from Scratch - Book

Tips and techniques for building both traditional wooden sailing ships as well as modern steel ships without a kit, including procedures for building without published plans.

Subtitled Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits, Edwin B. Leaf's step-by-step course covers what a first-time scratch-builder needs to know: choosing a subject, getting the most from plans, drawing scaled plans from photographs, and selecting tools and materials. Chapters cover half-models, hull construction, finishing, masting and rigging, sailmaking and flags, fittings and display, with complete start-to-finish examples of a plank-on-bulkhead model and a plank-on-frame model. Appendices list sources for plans, reference material and suppliers, plus a glossary.