Bread and Butter method. Where you take a sheet of either wood,
metal, or plastic, or whatever and spead it with an adhesive, and apply
another sheet over it, clamp it together and repeat until the desired
thinkness. Also called laminating in the non-ship modeling world.
I met modeler's who also called it also the Bread-board method because
the laminates are pinned to the board while being cured and
shaped. You can form a skeleton from laminates and fill the voids
with epoxy or resins. The method still is the same.
I have been using this method in building 1/700 hulls and modifications
since it is easier to build up the contours and shape the hull than
trying to shape a hull from a solid piece of material. For my
current post war Essex modification project, I have been combining a
layer of styrene, followed by a layer of polyburate epoxy resin,
followed by a sheet of basewood to form a stong, yet easily sandable
composite.
This type of construction is a very old form of ship modeling and is worth learning.
Scott