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Click to enlargeThe Built-Up Ship Model

Charles G. Davis
Our Price$12.95
Availability: In Stock
Format: Book
ISBN: 0486261743
Page Count: 256
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
A highly detailed, superbly illustrated manual introducing serious model builders to the hand-crafting of ship models from the bottom up, exactly as real ships were built in shipyards. The model is the 16-gun United States brig Lexington, in active service during the Revolution. Not for beginners. 133 illustrations.

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