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The Built-Up Ship Model
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Author/Editor: Charles G. Davis
ISBN 10:0486261743
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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. 13...  read more
 


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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.
Reprint of Publication Number Twenty-five of The Marine Research Society, Salem, MA, 1933.

Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486261743
ISBN 13: 9780486261744
Author/Editor: Charles G. Davis
Format: Book
Page Count: 256
Dimensions: 5 3/8 x 8 1/2
Publication date: December 1989

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