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Wooden Ship Modeling for Dummies
or
Learning from Pictures


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Why should you subscribe?

  • In order to answer the demands concerning the advantages of being a subscriber to the website "Wooden Ship Modeling for Dummies", I would advance the following points.
  • A GUIDE :
    If you had foreseen the purchase of a popularising work on the construction of kits, your subscription gives you access to a complete and interactive work guiding you from the beginning to the end of your building site. The fortnightly update of the site assures you the regular addition of solutions to construction problems.
  • EQUIPMENT :
    As all shipmodelers, with my first model I bought a lot of miracle tools. Equipment which, through constant use, turned out to be useless. The enumeration of these tools is going to allow you considerable savings. On the other hand, all the building steps are executed without special equipment, exept for a small drill and an iron.
  • ASSEMBLY INSTRUCTIONS :
    Among my twelve constructed models or models in construction, I have never found "Assembly Instructions" without bad directives. My website is going to indicate you these bad instructions and will offer you more rational extra methods.
  • NEW METHODS :
    The constant search for better building methods allows me to introduce and illustrate new methods of construction. These methods are explained by means of videos or photos. The purpose being to build and to improve your model with the minimum of means.
  • TYPICAL MODELS :
    Besides 47 chapters of the Part 2.1 - Construction of a Kit, you will find in the Part 2.2 - Detailed Instructions for Typical Models new instructions for the assembly of kits representing various types of typical ships offered on the market.
    For example, the construction of Le Renard is similar to the models Hanna, Falcon, Flyer, St-Helena, Albatross, Resolution or Toulonnaise.
  • UPDATE :
    Far from being static, the website gets bigger on average twice a month, with additions or updates. Added to this, a private mailing answers the questions of subscribers.
  • I hope so to have answered your questioning.
  • Very friendly yours,
    Hubert


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