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Building Model Warships
by: P.C. Coker III
copyright 1974
published by: The R.L. Bryan Company, Columbia South Carolina.

It is probably no longer in print, but it is an awsome resource.

Actually,
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/091443201X/104-0771795-2724758

Geez, I didn't know it was worth so much...

[Edit] I was just thinking, also,
Sanford Hohauser Architectural and Interior Models
Design and Construction
Published by: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
copyright 1970 by Litton educational Publishing

This book is really filled with a lot of different techniques from paper folding to casting, and vacuforming.

And I think this is a book I need to buy, I will check with a friend tomorrow and verify that this is the book I borrowed when I was doing plans for an Italian warship,

Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery
by Hans Mehl

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/detail/-/books/1591145570/104-0771795-2724758

Ok I checked with my friend, and he said this is the title of the book he has.

Naval Weapons of World War II
by John Campbell
Hardcover: 403 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.30 x 12.48 x 8.64
Publisher: United States Naval Inst.; (October 1902)
ISBN: 0870214594




http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0870214594/qid=1052030129/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/104-0771795-2724758?v=glance&s=books

He says it gets a bit too technical even for him(he's an engineer), But it has drawings and diagrams of most of the guns ever used during WW II.
This is helpful for me when I draw up plans.

Scratch building is a very challenging art. Books are probably your best medium. Start with a How to book , choose a subject, then go get every spec/book/set of plans you can. Videos may or may not help, the problem is they keep talking when you want them to shut up.