MEDDO Posted July 7, 2014 Share #1 Posted July 7, 2014 Illustrated from the Collections of the National Maritime Museum. AMAZON LINK I picked up this book a few months ago and I can say I am really pleased with it. It is a very nice collection of photos and has a nice description of each model presented with a tie-in to the historical basis of each type. It is a small short book only 128 pages but very nicely presented. Contents: 1 Prehistory 1600-1689 2 Guerre De Course 1689-1713 3 The Establishment Era 1706-1748 4 The "True Frigate" 1748-1778 5 The Heavy Frigate 1778-1815 6 The Last Generation 1815-1850 Inside these chapters are nice descriptions of the development of the bow and stern framings, sweep ports, number and type of armaments, ships boats etc. What is really nice is every model presented has a nice little catalogue number attached to it called a SLR number and you can enter that number into the National Maritime Museums website and you can see addition photos of the model in question. Overall a good addition to my library. Here are a few random pictures to give you a look at the layout. p.s. There is another book in the series coming out later this year called Ship Of The Line (A History In Ship Models) by Brian Lavery augie, CharlieZardoz, mtaylor and 3 others 6 Quote Michael Shipwrights of Ohio Current Build: ... Completed Builds: Queen Anne Barge - Syren, Pinnace - MS, Halifax 1768 - LSS, Murrelet - Pygmy, Swift 1805 - AL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landlubber Mike Posted July 7, 2014 Share #2 Posted July 7, 2014 I have the same book, and am very happy with it. I've used it extensively to research the accuracy of my Corel Unicorn kit. The use of the NMM models is very well done. MEDDO 1 Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flying_dutchman2 Posted July 8, 2014 Share #3 Posted July 8, 2014 I have this book as well and it is excellent. Well written, great pictures and detailed. Marc MEDDO 1 Quote Current Built: Zeehaen 1639, Dutch Fluit from Dutch explorer Abel J. Tasman Unofficial motto of the VOC: "God is good, but trade is better" Many people believe that Captain J. Cook discovered Australia in 1770. They tend to forget that Dutch mariner Willem Janszoon landed on Australia’s northern coast in 1606. Cook never even sighted the coast of Western Australia). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvm27 Posted July 9, 2014 Share #4 Posted July 9, 2014 I also love this book Michael. It packs a lot of information into the smaller format and referencing the SLR numbers is a great bonus. This is supposed to be the first of a series on the collection. Let's hope so! alangr4 1 Quote GregwebsiteAdmiralty Modelsmoderator Echo Cross-section buildAdmiralty Models Cross-section BuildFinished buildPegasus, 1776, cross-sectionCurrent buildSpeedwell, 1752 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabek Posted July 17, 2014 Share #5 Posted July 17, 2014 I love this book, as well, but I'm not entirely happy that there is no index or at least a list of the model SLRs. flying_dutchman2 1 Quote Current builds: Harvey, Baltimore Clipper - Artesania Latina HMS Triton Cross Section, 18th Century Frigate - online scratch build HMCS Agassiz, WW2 Flower-Class Corvette - HMV - card model Completed: Swift, Pilot Schooner - Artesania Latina --- Build log --- Gallery Skeeter, Ship-in-Bottle - Ships a Sailin' kit --- Build log Santa Maria, Caravel - Artesania Latina --- Build log Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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