Ship Models and How to Build Them

88 Pages·1973·8.361 MB·English

by  Harvey Weiss

MODELS
and how them
to build
BY HARVEY WEISS
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with photographs, plans, and drawings
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MODELS
SHIP
and how to build them
BY HARVEY WEISS
with photographs, plans, and
drawings
The ship models in this book have been
designed so that they can be put to-
gether without a lot of fancy, hard-to-
find power tools. In a clear and simple
text and with excellent photographs,
plans, and drawings, Harvey Weiss
shows how to make tugboats, sail-
boats, submarines, a Mississippi River
stern-wheeler, powerboats, and more.
Some can be sailed in your bathtub or
in a nearby pond or lake; others can be
supported on stands and admired for
their smooth and graceful good looks.
The instructions are precise but
flexible. Harvey Weiss describes al-
ternative ways of making the various
models, so that you will always end up
with one that is your own individual
creation. Even you are a beginner,
if
if you keep in mind certain principles
about floating shapes, you can modify
the superstructure of any model in the
book, to take advantage of tools and
materials already on hand or to suit
your own ideas of what a ship should
be.
Mr. Weiss has been building model
ships for many years, and he writes of
them with authority, affection, and
great respect for the inventiveness of
the beginning craftsman.
JACKET BY HARVEY WEISS
BOSTON
PUBLIC
LIBRARY

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Copyright © 1973 by Harvey Weiss
All rights reserved. Except for use in a review, the
reproduction or utilization of this work in any form
or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now
known or hereafter invented, including xerography,
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storage and retrieval system is forbidden without the
written permission of the publisher. Published simul-
taneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Limited, Toronto.
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Weiss, Harvey.
Ship models and how to build them.
SUMMARY:
Directions for using simple construc-
tion methods and tools to make models of a tugboat,
sailboat, stern-wheeler, submarine, and other types of
boats.
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