The Model-Building Handbook - Brick Price - 1981 - Paperback - Chilton Book Company

The Model-Building Handbook

Brick Price Movie Miniatures, Inc., builds exquisitely detailed models for some of the hottest movies and TV shows in town. And now Brick Price tells you how to do it, too, in

THE MODEL-BUILDING HANDBOOK Techniques Professionals Use
Follow along step-by-step as Price and his staff demonstrate the techniques used to build the Shuttlecraft model for NASA, the starship Enterprise for Star Trek (The Motion Picture), and prototypes for Ford, Datsun and Chevrolet. See trains, submarines and battle scenes come to life in exciting photographic sequences.

Carefully studying the techniques detailed in the text and illustrated in line drawings, you'll advance quickly from assembling and detailing plastic kits to painting lifelike figures so real you'd swear they're breathing, to scratchbuilding models you've designed yourself. And as you progress, you'll learn:

* easy assembly, weathering and detailing methods
* more complex metal and plastic casting techniques, wood carving, soldering, and custom metal-plating
methods
* how to create the illusion of reality with finely detailed dioramas and displays * how accomplished modelmakers can turn pro - the inside story of the industry