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Getting started
"Making Ships in Bottles"
By Leon and Pat Labistour
"The best beginners guide around"
This is the most straightforward introduction to making ships in bottles
available. It is a most encouraging book designed to get a beginner going
in the hobby - and adding material for the advanced modeler as confidence
builds. The book combines Leon's technical expertise and draws on Pat's
long experience both as a modeller and a teacher, to set out the work in stages
- each easily followed.
To read a full review or order a copy on-line or
by post please click here.
(Pat Labistour is the Membership Secretary of the European Association of Ships in Bottles and has won their premier award - details of the Association below. Ed.)
Sources
The Association welcomes bottle ship makers, collectors and indeed anyone
interested in the art. Currently there are over 260 members drawn from
right across Europe and around the world, several as far afield as Japan.
Membership costs £16 pa in the UK and £18 for the rest of the world. (or
£20 with Airmail). The
Association publishes the informative quarterly magazine "Bottleship", and has a
regular convention and prize giving.
Patricia Labistour with one of her models.
Dutch Ships in Bottles Association
Website
http://www.shipsinbottles.nl/