Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern - Milton Roth

[tomsimon]

An excellent read for a beginner Modeler or a professional needing to get back to the basics. Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern is the Modeler’s compass, a K-12 education in ship modeling and a career counselor. Most importantly, thank you, Mr. Roth, for introducing me to Lusci, the great!

 

[catopower]

This was the first ship modeling book I'd ever owned. Though it's not perfect, I learned a lot from it and got tons of inspiration from looking at the photos of shipmodels in the book. I never met Mr. Roth, but his wife Lois had maintained his ship model mail order shop, The Dromedary, for many year and I called them often. 

 

I have to admit to having a small crush on Rose, who worked for the shop... 😊

 

Clare

[Gregory]

9 hours ago, catopower said:

Though it's not perfect,

It has it's shortcomings, but I had to get a lot deeper into wood ship modeling before I was aware of that.

I came across it in the library before I built my first wood model, and I found the Vanguard on the cover to be mesmerizing.

 

It is the kind of book that can get young people hooked..   Just try getting them hooked with Steel as a first book..😁

[uss frolick]

Bill Romero told our club a long time ago that the author did not obtain permission to reproduce many of the plans shown in his book, and got sued by multiple persons soon after publication. Sad. Pays to be careful ...

[Gregory]

Us naïve would be ship modelers didn't have a clue....