Modelling in 1933

My grandfather used to make sailing ships from scratch. I used to watch him when I was a kid in the 50s and early 60s. He would carve the hulls from scrap wood and use everything imaginable to build those ships. I remember a few times he used metal from old venetian blinds to make sails. they looked awesome.                  Ken

If you're interested in more model ships , wood, plastic ,paper, R/C what have you, they can be fornd on Model Ship World Index.  BILL

david

nice! very interesting but i probably will never use the techniques just shows how times have changed!

Actually, scratch building of sailing ships is still alive today and the methods are pretty much the same as in the old Pop Mechanics articles.  Model shipbuilders probably have easier access to good scale drawings than modelers of other genre.

One big difference, however, is that there are several suppliers of various fittings such as deadeyes, blocks, belaying pins, etc.  So few people scratch those.

Also wooden sailing ship kits lasted well into the plastic era.  Today, Model Shipways still sells kits with carved wooden hulls (in addition to their planked hull kits).  Scientific used to be a big supplier of these kits, but they are long gone.

Yeah but,ya might be able to stamp em,blocks etc., outta styrene. Micro-mark sells a book on how to make such stamps primarily for stamping parts from brass using a metal rod such as a large nail or drill steel. BILL

nice! very interesting but i probably will never use the techniques just shows how times have changed!