Zustand: Sehr gut, Taschenbuch, Auflage 1985
ISBN: 0-87033-334-8, Verlag: Cornell Maritime Press, Inc.
This is a practical guide to the construction of a detailed plank-on-frame model replica of the historic vessel presently moored in Baltimore´s Inner Harbor. McArdle chose to model this vessel for several reasons, perhaps the most dramatic being that he chanced upon the original vessel´s restoration naval architect Leon Polland. From Polland he acquired insight into the long and controversial history of the Constellation, one of the first and still extant vessels of the U. S. Navy, whose keel was laid in the 1790s.
Starting with the hull, the modeller is given step-by-step instructions with tips on materials and processes that McArdle found to be most helpful when he built his model. The modeller will then learn clever techniques for simulating the fittings and various kinds of eightennth-century ship funiture as well as that part of ship modelling which represents that aw-inspiring appearance of large sailing craft - the spars and rigging.
