Ahoy there! Paper Captain takes the reader through a century of nautical history with facts, figures, and stunning illustrations, then lets every fantasy sailor cut out and build twenty beautiful die-cut paper models—designed to float! Devised by the author and designer of Paper Pilot, Paper Captain is a beautifully illustrated voyage into the world of model boats, from speed boats and tugs to luxury liners and naval catamarans, bringing together stunning archival photographs and colorful technical drawings with expertly designed die-cut models that readers can cut out and assemble. The book presents innovative histories of twenty feats of maritime engineering drawn from maritime museums around the world, from the legendary British HMS Victory to the USS Monitor at the Mariner’s Museum in Virginia and the German U-505 at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. Each boat is accompanied by its naval history, facts and statistics, and photographs of the vessels in action. Included are twenty finely detailed die-cut paper models, each presented with clear instructions for assembly and helpful advice for deploying your paper fleet—whether in the ocean or the bathtub.
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This book contains pre-punched paper parts to build a number of boat models. It is not an origami book. The colors are good and the stamping seems to be pretty well on mark in my copy. This book isn't for smaller kids, as you need to score the paper prior to folding to actually make the models. Some parts are so small that the scoring is absolutely necessary, no way around it. After punching out and scoring, you've got to glue the numerous pieces into the full model. Very limited instructions (usually just two blown-up diagrams at best) are provided for each model. On my first model, I ended up throwing out a part because I couldn't figure out how it was supposed to fit and it didn't seem necessary anyways. Tips are provided as to how to waterproof the models so they can actually float, but I haven't tested their methods out. The one issue I have with this book is that the location of the score/fold lines are not obvious many times. I found myself guessing at times as to where to put a fold. Other similar books I own give faint guide lines to ease this process.
In addition to the models, there is a page or so written about each particular boat, giving historical details. There's also a 2 page spread showing profiles of the boats all together to give a feel for relative size.
There are 20 models within the book:
Sovereign of the Seas (sailing ship)
HMS Victory (sailing ship)
USS Constitution (sailing ship)
USS Monitor (Ironclad)
CSS Virginia (Ironclad)
U-117 Unterseeboot (submarine)
SS Normandie (passenger liner)
USS Gato SS-212 (submarine)
USS Iowa BB-61 (battleship)
Charles McAllister (tugboat)
Bathyscaphe Trieste (research submarine)
USS Nautilus SSN-171 (submarine)
Bluebird K7 (speed record boat)
USS Enterprise CVN-65 (aircraft carrier)
Mystic DSRV-1 (rescue submarine)
Guppy 13 (personal sailboat)
Sea Shadow IX-529 (Navy test boat)
Knock Nevis (supertanker)
RMS Queen Mary 2 (passenger liner)
Emma Maersk (cargo ship)
In addition to the models, there is a page or so written about each particular boat, giving historical details. There's also a 2 page spread showing profiles of the boats all together to give a feel for relative size.
There are 20 models within the book:
Sovereign of the Seas (sailing ship)
HMS Victory (sailing ship)
USS Constitution (sailing ship)
USS Monitor (Ironclad)
CSS Virginia (Ironclad)
U-117 Unterseeboot (submarine)
SS Normandie (passenger liner)
USS Gato SS-212 (submarine)
USS Iowa BB-61 (battleship)
Charles McAllister (tugboat)
Bathyscaphe Trieste (research submarine)
USS Nautilus SSN-171 (submarine)
Bluebird K7 (speed record boat)
USS Enterprise CVN-65 (aircraft carrier)
Mystic DSRV-1 (rescue submarine)
Guppy 13 (personal sailboat)
Sea Shadow IX-529 (Navy test boat)
Knock Nevis (supertanker)
RMS Queen Mary 2 (passenger liner)
Emma Maersk (cargo ship)
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book has a set of die cut paper ship models in the second half of the book. The first half has some history of the vessels.
The die cut on most of the parts do not line up quite right, in fact some of the cuts were so close to the perimeter of the page that parts of the printed graphics and some tabs would be missing when the part is punched out. Not very clear instructions on how the models go together, just some very basic drawings showing the relationship between each part in an exploded diagram. Luckily I have some experience with paper models so they make sense to me. Someone not familiar with paper models would most likely have trouble.
The die cut on most of the parts do not line up quite right, in fact some of the cuts were so close to the perimeter of the page that parts of the printed graphics and some tabs would be missing when the part is punched out. Not very clear instructions on how the models go together, just some very basic drawings showing the relationship between each part in an exploded diagram. Luckily I have some experience with paper models so they make sense to me. Someone not familiar with paper models would most likely have trouble.
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This is a wonderful mini chronology of shipping; the illustrations of how ships are built and how they work are amazing, and the pictures are interesting and well selected. The models are small, and can be frustrating if the modeler has little or no experience with paper models, but they build up into a really cool little history of shipping. They'd be perfect for a mobile or two.[...]
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