Ship Model Builder's Assistant (eBook)

Charles G. Davis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
288 Seiten
Dover Publications (Verlag)
978-0-486-15620-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Invaluable guide offers detailed descriptions, drawings of masting, rigging, and major fittings of American clippers and packets. Also includes wealth of details on deck furniture. 279 line drawings.

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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. Enhanced with over 270 clear, detailed drawings of ships' components, this volume gives the model builder a deep understanding of the workings of a fully rigged and appointed sailing ship. After initial chapters on varying types of ship models, including the built-up model and wooden-sail models, the author devotes individual chapters to the masting of ships, mastheads, the standing rigging, the running rigging, foot-ropes, the blocks, steering wheels, the ship's galley, pumps, ship ironwork, copper sheathing, the ground tackle, gun ports, boats, and davits. He includes as well invaluable tables and lists of data that offer opportunities to compare vital statistics on rigging, masting, and more. Charles G. Davis was a well-known naval architect, shipbuilder, master seaman, racing yachtsman, and nautical chronicler. His lifelong love affair with the great ships of the past resulted in several classic works on ships and ship model building. The present volume is one of the latter, an extremely thorough, practical, and readable guide to building ship models in authentic detail and in proper proportion. In all, The Ship Model Builder's Assistant offers a treasury of both descriptive and "e;how-to"e; information essential to model builders and highly enlightening for all fascinated by the great sailing ships of America's past.  

Inhalt

I. TYPES OF SHIP MODELSII. THE BUILT-UP MODELIII. WOODEN SAIL MODELSIV. THE MASTING OF SHIPSVI. MASTHEADSVI. THE STANDING RIGGINGVII. THE RUNNING RIGGINGVIII. FOOT-ROPESIX. THE BLOCKSX. STEERING WHEELSXI. THE SHIP'S GALLEYXII. PUMPSXIII. SHIP IRONWORKXIV. COPPER SHEATHINGXV. THE GOUND TACKLEXVI. GUN PORTSXVII. BOATSXVIII. DAVITS APPENDIX

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Crafts: Woodworking
• Reihe/Serie: Dover Woodworking
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Gewicht: 322 g
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schiffe
• Schlagworte: accurate model • Adhesives • american sailing • Battleships • Beginner • biddlecombe • blue jacket • boat builder • boat building • Boats • books on american sailings • books on blue jackets • books on boat builders • books on boat buildings • books on building models • books on build models • books on cape horns • books on clipper ships • books on line drawings • books on maritime histories • books on model boats • books on model buildings • books on modeling techniques • books on model kits • books on model ships • books on modern ships • books on reference materials • books on sailing ships • books on sailing vessels • books on scale models • books on sea witches • books on ship builders • books on ship buildings • books on ship constructions • books on ship plans • books on ship 's riggings • books on wooden sailings • books on wooden ships • building model • building models • building wooden • build model • build models • build wooden • built-up • bulkhead • cape horn • clipper ships • Fittings • heave • HMS Victory • Hobby • Hobbyists • Hull • invaluable • JIGS • Keel • kits • late 18th • Line drawings • Maritime History • masts • merchant • miniature • model boat • Model Building • modelers • Modeling Techniques • Model Kit • Modelling • model ships • modern ship • Nautical • Naval architecture • NOVICE • Petersson • Planking • planks • proudly displayed • Reference material • Rigging • Roth • Sail • Sailing ships • sailing vessels • scale model • Scratch • sea witch • shipbuilder • ship builders • ship building • Shipbuilding • Ship Construction • ship plans • ship's rigging • shrouds • Simplicity • square rigged • Vessel • Wood • wooden sailing • wooden ships
• ISBN-10: 0-486-15620-6 / 0486156206
• ISBN-13: 978-0-486-15620-0 / 9780486156200