Perfecting historical ship models from kits (PoD)

Rigging, sails and more

To build a historical model ship, many modellers use one of the numerous commercially available kits of various ship types. But almost every kit contains simplifications, technical inaccuracies, or even historical errors. In this book, Martin Haberland describes how the rigging, rigging and sails of a historical ship model can be refined from the kit. With partly simple measures and simple additions, shipbuilding historical subtleties can be added, and mistakes corrected. This is how a kit model becomes a museum piece!

A comprehensive list of shipbuilding terminology also offers help to every model builder.

• Additions to bowsprit and jib boom

• Standing rigging

• Improvements to the yards

• Sails – from accessories or self-made?

• Anchor

• Stern lanterns

• Flags

• Technical terms from historical shipbuilding and everyday seafaring life