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The Built-Up Ship Model America's sudden entry into theThis highly detailed, superbly illustrated manual introduces serious model builders to the hand crafting of ship models from the bottom up, exactly as real ships were traditionally built in shipyards. Clearly, and with painstaking care, every step of construction is explained, from laying the keel to the last details of masting and rigging. For this book, the author chose as a model the 16 gun United States brig Lexington, a merchant vessel converted