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Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Models & model-making
This lavishly illustrated book provides guidance on how to
transform your model from its bare structure to a realistic finish.
This new book provides: a guide for both beginners and the more
experienced, covering all scales and gauges; advice on the
selection of airbrushes, compressors and essential tools; a simple
three-step process to clean and prepare your model for painting;
guidance on dealing with faults and paint problems; instruction on
the pros and cons of the different ways to produce lines; tips to
help you produce consistent fine lines with a bow pen; how to get
the best out of transfers and the different types available, and
finally, basic weathering techniques using a variety of methods.
With over 500 colour photographs it will help even the beginner to
produce a realistic life-like model.
Model ship building does not have to be an expensive hobby. The
author takes you by the hand on a journey through one of the oldest
crafts - nowadays a hobby - and shows how you can build an end
product of fascination, history, skill and value using low-cost
materials and a minimum of tools - from 'scratch' in fact. The book
starts by explaining hull lines and hull construction methods, then
moves on to masts, yards, booms and gaffs, deck equipment and
furniture, anchors, rigging and blocks, armament and simple sail
making. Finally instruction is given to painting, mounting and
displaying the models. The author's text is packed with useful
hints and tips derived from his lifetime of modelling which,
together with the large number of detailed drawings and photographs
depicting many of the ship models in his collection, some showing
useful close-ups on details and fittings, provides a very practical
guide to the art and craft of model ship building.
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