Donald McNarry: Ship Models in Miniature

"This is a book of great interest to the collector of ship models and to the ship model builder. The following pages describe and illustrate over sixty miniature ship models built by the author. They include not only English ships but such famous American names as the Constitution, the Alabama and no less than ten smart Yankee clippers, and there arc several vessels of Dutch and South African interest. The historical period covered is from 700 B.C. to the late 1960s, the types of models include scenic, waterline, full hull and the traditional Admiralty Board dockyard models. The data sources, the ships themselves and the models are described in some detail. The building of miniature ship models is a very precise and unusual process quite unlike other forms of craftsmanship, and not really very much like building ordinary-sized ship models. The materials and tools arc fine and small, the methods orderly and controlled and the sequence of the greatest importance, there can be no hurrying, no mass production and no skimping, and the hours that go into a small model arc quite considerable."