How to Build Plastic Ship Models

by Lester Wilkins, Burr Angle (Editor)

The expert model builder, Les Wilkins, shows you the techniques of building historically accurate, well crafted, and beautiful ship models from plastic kits. It is written so that novice model builders can achieve satisfactory results from the start. - Contents: Getting ready - the work area, tools, adhesives and fillers, paints, brushes, air brushes, painting techniques, and a list of recommended books to research the rigging and details of the ship you are building. -- Sailing Ships - basic hull assembly, hull jigs, deck and other component assembly and painting for realistic looks - riggings and sails: materials, techniques, building assemblies - Building the President, the sister ship to the U.S. Constitution: detailed step-by-step instructions to achieve a superior model. --- Steel ships: assembly, fitting out and painting for realism. - Appendices with flags and other information. --- Well illustrated with many color photos of completed, complex ship models the author build, as well as with black / white photos and drawings showing components, techniques and steps

64 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1980