How to make a half-model battleship
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How to make a half-model battleship
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Title: How to Make a Half-Model Battleship
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Subtitle: 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 illus
trations will give you all the in-
formation 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 in-
formation 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 smoke-
stacks are given, together with the
position of the secondary battery be-
low the main-deck and the contour of a
typical bow and stern, with the loca-
tion of two of the ~~ four propel-
lers 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 life-
boats if desired.
The model is made of pine, since
that is the cheapest and easiest to work
witii. 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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Contributor (Dublin Core)
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Joseph Brinker (Article writer)
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1919-01
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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120-121
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Davide Donà
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 94, n. 1, 1919
