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Presenting volume III in our Swan series; THE FULLY FRAMED MODEL, BUILDING THE SWAN CLASS SLOOP PEGASUS 1777 by Greg Herbert. 8 ½"x11" Hardcover with jacket, 230 pages, hundreds of photos, color section, $65 + shipping and handling
The SWAN series has been collaboration between David Antscherl, who wrote volumes I and II, and Greg Herbert, who was David's student builder of HMS PEGASUS. Together they put together a practicum that became the basis for this series of books. In this book, Greg photographed his step by step progress in building his model following David's instructions. He has presented the best of his photos, along with his written comments on each one and has arranged them to match the chapters in the first two books. The finished model is shown in full color along with pictures of other SWAN class models in an appendix section. David has also added instruction pages on building a binnacle for the model and a hull planking diagram. The rest of the appendices feature copies of historical documents concerning other SWAN class ships.
Cathy and I believe that David Antscherl's two books on the British Swan Class Sloops of 1767-1780 are valuable additions to the ship modeler's library and work bench, and we will endeavor to keep them in print.
To that end, SeaWatchBooks announces reprints of Volume I and Volume II in slightly revised editions. The books will retail for $70 each plus shipping. Please see our ordering pages for Swan I and Swan II for details. For those modelers who own the first editions of volumes I and II, the revised portions of the text in later editions are available for downloading. Just go to the links below and print them. This way, your books will be up to date with all of David's additional text and drawings. David is busy working on Volume IV. This book will be on rigging a ship-rigged sloop of the same period as the Swan Class. His book is in the mid stages of development, and we will update you on his progress on this site from time to time. If you are working on a Swan Class model now, we would suggest that you visit David's and Greg's web site, www.admiraltymodels.com. They are developing sets of photo-etched brass parts and other items that you might want to incorporate into your build.
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