The Art of Shipmodelling

Describes in detail all the crafts that a shipmodeller must master: he must be, in turn, a shipwright; a carpenter; a cabinetmaker; a marqueter; a blacksmith; a ropemaker and a sailmaker. Frölich shows that any beginner, if he is industrious and persevering, can master this art. In the first twenty pages Frölich describes his studio, his tools and equipment and his library. He then devotes about one hundred pages to the timbers of a 1730 merchant vessel , the "Mercure", and to M.de Tourville 's three-decker vessel of 1680, "L'Ambitieux". In the next one hundred twenty pages, the author discusses the equipment, fittings, guns, decoration and sculptures, ship's boats and rigging. The final sixty pages offer a description of Frölich's own models (all at 1:48 scale ) : the schooner Jacinthe; the lugger Coureur; the brig Cyclope; the bomb ketch Salamandre; the 12-pdr frigate Belle Poule; the merchant vessel Mercure and the xebec Requin. The unfinished model of L'Ambitieux - the Chevalier de Tourville's three-decker vessel - is abundantly described in the chapter on framework. French title: L'Art du Modelisme.

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Author	Frölich, Bernard
Number of Pages	301
Illustrated	photos & illus.
Format	hardcover
Date	2002
ISBN	2903179255
ISBN13	9782903179250

Price:	$158.95