How to Make a Half-Model Battleship
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How to Make a Half-Model Battleship
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How to Make a Half-Model Battleship. Plans and the way of cutting out the blocks to make a relief half-model battleship
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Here you are, boys. The illustrations will give you all the information you need to know how to make a half model of one of the most modern battleships. All that you will need are wood, glue, paint, some tools, and a desire to have a model that will be an excellent ornament for your den. When you read of the patrol work Uncle Sam's great overseas fleet is performing in the North Sea, and of perhaps some big sea battle which our sailors and those of the Allied navies staged sometime before the Kaiser acknowledged that he was beaten for good, think how proud you will be if you can show your friends a fine model of the type of super-dreadnaught which played the most important part in the fight.
The illustrations show a super-dreadnaught of the battle-cruiser type, somewhat similar to those used in our navy. This is not an exact copy of the United States ships, since the plans of all navy vessels must be kept secret so that enemies may not obtain any information that will be of assistance to them. Nevertheless, the boat shown is modern in every respect, formed to give great speed, and long enough to give the necessary displacement for carrying the largest gun battery now afloat, twelve 14- to 16-in. guns, three each in four turrets located on the ship's center-line, two forward and two aft.
The position of the basket-masks, the conning-tower, and the smokestacks are given, together with the position of the secondary battery below the main-deck and the contour of a typical bow and stern, with the location of two of the four propellers which drive the vessel at a speed of close to twenty-five knots an hour. In general, the model is 56 in. long over all, about 4 1/2 in. wide, and about 10 in. high from the bottom of the keel to the top of the smokestacks. It gives a true form of half of the ship, and should be mounted on a painted backboard about 60 in. long and 12 in. high. This size enables the maker to embellish the boat with miniature guns, anchors, flags, and even lifeboats if desired.
The model is made of pine, since that is the cheapest and easiest to work with. It is glued together as indicated to form a solid block, out of which the shape is cut with a chisel, and then smoothed with sandpaper.
To be made realistic, the portion under the water-line may be painted a bright red and all above the water-line war gray.
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Autore secondario
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Joseph Brinker (writer)
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eng
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Data di rilascio
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1919-01
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120-121
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
