The vast majority of period ship models are built from kits, usually primarily of wood with some ready-made fittings. Although these commercial offerings have improved significantly in recent years, all of them can be enhanced in accuracy or detail by an experienced modelmaker. This book, by an expert ship modeller, distils lessons gleaned from a lifetime practising the hobby to the highest standards, setting out methods of improving basic kits and gradually developing the skills and confidence to tackle the construction of a model from scratch. Using a variety of kits as the starting point, each chapter demonstrates a technique that can be readily improved or a feature that can be replaced to the advantage of the finished model. Topics include hull planking, representing copper sheathing, many aspects of more accurate masting and rigging, and how to replace kit parts and fittings from scratch. Ultimately, the impact of a period model depends on its accuracy, and the book also provides guidance on plans and references, where to find them and how they are best used. The plank-on-frame model, sometimes with exposed frames in the Navy Board style, has always been considered the crowning achievement of period ship modelling, and this book concludes with coverage of the very latest kits that put fully framed models within the reach of ordinary mortals. Offering advice, expertise and inspiration, _Ship Models from the Age of Sail_ has something for anyone interested in building a period ship model, whatever their level of skill.

WORLD WAR COMMANDER A turn-based real-time strategy game based on the WW2 European Theater using scale miniatures on 4" inch square scale maps. Included is a complete rule set for armies of the German and American Army's and how to conduct battle engagements.

Seven cool projects guide you through creating interactive robotic models with the LEGO MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor kit. The book is packed with illustrations to help you better visualise each model and includes a quick reference guide to the programming blocks used and the complete bill of materials of the kit. As you build these robots, you'll learn how to use the LEGO MINDSTORMS App (based on the Scratch 3.0 programming language) and be given the tools necessary to invent your own LEGO MINDSTORMS robots when you're ready for more.

The colouring book horror fans have been waiting for! This exciting new series offers a fun new way to take a walk on the dark side. Mythogoria: Night Terrors features intricate images of hellish dreamscapes by one of our best-selling artists.

Play Reality: How Videogames are Changing EVERYTHING, is Jayne Gackenbach's and Teace Snyder's first book together and, like, the twentieth or something between the two of them. Jayne Gackenbach is a well-respected videogame and dream researcher and Teace Snyder is a 'kind of' well-respected hardcore gamer and lifelong writer. Jayne works at, and can be contacted through, Grant MacEwan University, where she has taught and researched for 21 years, and, Teace, oversees, and can be contacted through his website, www.teace.ca, which he created and launched in 2007. Oh yeah, and by the way, they're mother and son too, and, are currently living in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where they regularly express the endless bounds of their geekiness and hold hipsters in utter contempt.