Customer Reviews

Building Architectural Models

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

The title for this book is very misleading! This is truly an amatures guide. This is something that your Grandmother might put together, for Arts and Crafts. The skill level for these examples is really novice and is clearly shown by the decent photography. If you have never built a simple formcore model, this book is for you. I am an experenced model builder and purchased this book to find something new in it that might help me. NO such luck.

I agree one star is way to gracious. I wished I had read the reviews rather than be exciting about finding a new "building structures" book and just ordering.
The books starts out saying its for high school and college architectural modelers. It should say it's for no more than 5th graders. They use foam core for many of the models. I was ready to see the authors use milk cartons! Its that bad. They try to pass off a stone facade with aquarium gravel!?! Are you kidding me! Plus some of the structures shown in the book are falling apart! Pul-eaze!
There is better info on scratch building structures for free online at some model railroad websites and forums such as http://www.railroad-line.com/forum/forum.asp?FORUM_ID=25
So don't waste your money. Or if your insistent, send me the $15 and I'll send you my copy. I only looked thru it once.

Dont waste your money, even a grade school art teacher would be disappointed. The publisher should have never allowed the title to include the term architects.

The book is well illustrated and is a good, generalized treatment of the subject matter -- building architectural models. Good enough for the beginner and perhaps for those completing more advanced models, it had enough specifics to allow construction of reasonably accurate and attractive models for general use. Covered as materials were foam board, wood lathe and uses of acrylic for windows. Cautionary material was included too in the uses of various finishes for the product -- what works, and what doesn't. All in all, the book is a good introductory allowing the average person to develop skills to produce small models for proposed building projects that they may desire to build/have built on their property.

If you want some tips on gluing together plastic kits for a toy railroad, this is the book for you, especially if you are not too particular about the looks of the finished product. Not for experienced modelers, this book is geared toward grade schoolers and their teachers.

Total of waste of time and money.... Nothing of value in this magazine whatsoever. They pumped it full of color photos of basic structures and offered no instruction of any value. I opened it, scanned the contents and Threw it in the trash.

This rag gets 0 stars.

If your looking for scratch built modeling techniques this is not the book for you. There are good ideas for detailing plastic models.

This book is the worst depiction of model-making I have yet seen. I lost money sending it back but I'd be embarrassed to have it in my library. Should carry a warning label: `written by authors having only a passing interest in the subject'.

Great book, perfect for beginners. Wonderful pictures. Would highly reccomend to anyone interested in getting into this hobby.