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Planking Techniques for Model Ship Builders Donald Dressel
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional

Then I browsed through the 2010 Model Boats Winter Special for the hundredth time and there was my answer, a little 'dinner tray' sized Fairey Huntress by Glynn Guest, my saviour from a period of boredom! Introducing your children to the exciting art of ship model building is a fun and rewarding experience. You don't need the deftness of a surgeon or the vocabulary of an old salt to build a model. Frank Mastini - Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits International Marine | 1990 | ISBN: 0071558675 | Pages: 162 | PDF | 54.5 MB. The model, as designed is just a . This building technique allows for a water- resistant finished boat in about 2 hours for a cost of $4.95. But once you've mastered the basics, where do you go? Ship Modeling from Scratch: Tips and Techniques for Building Without Kits $8.94 Building a model from a kit is an excellent way to develop your modeling skills. Cast Your Anchor has carefully designed options canoes using the bread and butter technique. You'll be making many parts of the deck superstructure, sometimes sewing your own sails or double-planking your hull. In the article in the 2010 MB Winter Special, Glynn mentioned his reasons for not planking the deck of his model and fair enough, but I like the pondside social networking and discussions of what, how, why and so on. 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.