Perfecting ship models (PoD)

Master tips, techniques and tools for the ship modeler

Genuine slugs with 2.5 mm side length, 0.5 mm thick wooden dowels and metal bolts, a 2 cm small carved relief or 1 mm wide moldings with profile - subtleties that make a historical ship model perfect.

Günter Bossong, a master builder of historic ship models, shows in this book how to realize such details and many others. From the scale modification of the construction plan to the keel laying and the insertion of the masts, the original manufacture of the cordage, from changing the scale of the building plan to laying the keel, inserting the masts, making the ropes true to the original and the smallest ornaments. The reader is given countless tried-and-tested tips and ingenious solutions to problems, which are illustrated in over 180 pictures. Important chapters deal with the improvement and expansion of existing tools and machines as well as the production of special tools that the model builder will no longer want to do without.

The entire wealth of knowledge of an experienced ship model builder is made accessible to everyone in this work!