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South Street Seaport Museum Reopens After Financial Struggles

DNAinfo - Jan 26, 2012
The South Street Seaport Museum is showcasing a display of historic ship models. (Andrew Hinderaker) SOUTH STREET SEAPORT — The South Street Seaport Museum is open to the public once again. "We're thrilled," said Susan Henshaw Jones, director of the ...

£1m to get museum ship-shape

Glasgow Evening Times - Jan 19, 2012
Important pieces in the Scottish Maritime Museum's Linthouse Building in Irvine, include historic ship models, shipbuilding machinery and machine tools. The roof of the Ayrshire museum has deteriorated over the past few years and is now in poor ...

Models -- ones with glue -- descend on East Brainerd Church of Christ

Chattanooga Times Free Press - Jan 20, 2012
There were even some "magnificent, fairly large, wooden ship models," he said. "There will be a little bit of everything," he said. Moore said the show is drawing entrants from many Southern states as well as a few from Ohio and Illinois.

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Ship Modeling Simplified: Tips and Techniques for Model Construction from Kits

by: Frank Mastini

In Ship Modeling Simplified, master model builder Frank Mastini puts to paper the methods he's developed over 30 years at the workbench to help novices take their first steps in an exciting pastime. You don't need the deftness of a surgeon or the vocabulary of an old salt to build a model. What you need is an understanding coach. Mastini leads readers from the mysteries of choosing a kit and setting up a workshop through deciphering complicated instructions and on to painting, decorating, and displaying finished models--with patience and clarity, not condescension.
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Ships in Bottles

by: Guy DeMarco
This book is an excellent course in a legendary art form; for less than its price, a reasonable model of a ship in a bottle can be made. Five projects of graduated difficulty are explained clearly step-by-step through drawings, black and white, and color photographs. Now in its second edition, this very popular title includes both new models and new materials. Historical background is woven into the instructions, giving the ships and bottles greater interest and authenticity. Guy De Marco leads the modeler slowly through each step, building confidence through the process and finishing with a work of art that is certain to invite compliments and conversation.
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1/700 model ships Japanese Navy WWll

1/700 scale waterline ship models and dioramas

 

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Restoring a Ship Model

Learn about the art of crafting authentic ship models from ship model expert, Rob Napier. For more information, please visit www.mfa.org

 

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Presentation of manned ship models at Port Revel

Port Revel is used for training of maritime pilots, masters and officers. Instructors are former maritime pilots. Training on a 5 ha lake with 11 ships and 4 tugs at scale 1:25, and DGPS tracking system. See: www.portrevel.com

 

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Scale Ship Models Radio Controlled

Local scale radio controlled ship models around the Greater Metro-West area near Boston, MA USA

 

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Illinois Stories | National Ship Model Museum

National Ship Model Museum. In sleepy Sadorus, a farm town near Champaign, a collector/expert found the perfect building for his national museum of ship models, some of them up to 30 feet in length. Some of these models were used in Hollywood's greatest movies, some were built as prototypes, all have an interesting story.