Product Description

A Modeler's reference for planking wooden ships, both kit and scratch models.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #126924 in Books
• Published on: 1988-03-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 138 pages

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Customer Reviews

I would not buy this book again
Lots of [bad] pictures.

A stuffy comment about "I have never had to personally use stealers"

This guy may really be that good but the rest of us don't need to hear about it.

Final comment: I kept the book but have been thinking about throuwing it in the recycling bin. It is NOT GOOD for beginners...or much of anybody else.

Very bad
Very bad
Poor organized, picture very bad
Don't spend you many on this book

Excellent Resource
I own several other great books on ship modelling:

Ship Modeling Simplified by Frank Mastini,
The Built-Up Ship Model by Charles G. Davis,
Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern by Milton Roth,
and Historic Ship Models by Wolfram Zu Mondfeld, as well as other less comprehensive books.

I have studied all of these books at length and found Dressel's text to be the most informative on not only planking but also framing techniques.

While others who have reviewed this book seem to have gripes about it, I would challenge anyone to find a more detailed book on this discipline. The fact is that no one text exists that will provide all of the best tips and techniques, but this book gives the most detail that I have come across. I consider it a must-have for any model shipbuilder's library.