028 - The Frigate NAIAD (1797) by Edward J Tosti [Volume I]

[@gunterhahnchen3388]

Verry nice book, Thank you for share

[@OlhaBatchvarov]

Thanks for the rating!))

[@Hellspijker]

Do you know of a book about hms indifatigable? I would love to build a model of it, since i read the Hornblower series as a kid,

[@kroumbatchvarov7671]

Unfortunately, there is no constructional book on Indefatigable: at least none that I am aware of. She was a razee - as you probably know already - from a 64-gun ship built on the lines of Ardent. The scantlings detail of the Ardent can be deduced from two sources: there is the Anonymous Treatise on Shipbuilding from the 1770s-80s (in which you fill find the specifications also of the American big frigates like Constitution: about 10-15 years before they were designed! :-). The other sources is David Steele and different contracts for ships built for the Crown.

[@СергейТишен]

Thanks, it's very interesting! And what about le Cоureur?

[@kroumbatchvarov7671]

I am afraid I do not have Le Coureur. Olya uses my library for these series and my books are mostly oriented towards my research interests - types of vessels I work on or am interested in, or need for teaching.

[@СергейТишен]

@@kroumbatchvarov7671 Thanks for answere, but I mean model, she building. Also I want starting to build Virginia armed sloop 1768, and I gathering all information about it. If you know some books about it, I'm be very happy.

[@kroumbatchvarov7671]

@@СергейТишен She is actually building the cutter La Cerf. Le Coureur, I believe, was a lugger. On the Virginia Sloop: there was a book by an American shipmodeler who used to publish Ships in Scale, Clayton Feldman. The title is Modeling an Armed Virginia Sloop of 1768. Unfortunately I do not have the book and am unlikely to get it at $211 on Amazon. Hendrik af Chapman is probably the most reliable source of drawings and information. I am pretty sure that the "Virginia" sloop was actually based on Chapman's Bermudan sloop. And Chapman's drawings are online at high resolution - and legal!!! to download.

[@СергейТишен]

@@kroumbatchvarov7671 И то правда, действительно сам я "Олень". Да чертежи Чепеля и его книга у меня есть, а статьи Фельдмана мне попадались в MSB journal, поищем😀

[@kroumbatchvarov7671]

@@СергейТишен Google told me what you wrote :-). Yup - he had a series of articles and he also had another booklet on the same. I think the series were titled "College of Nautical Knowledge or some such. Its been ages...

[@jasonguttman548]

Beautiful book. Thank you for your review. I would like to know and hear your opinion on these books 🤔. You could tell us what you like 👍/dislike👎 about these book. Stay safe and be well my friend. 😷. 😷. 👍. 🇺🇸❤️🇷🇺........ ;-)

[@kroumbatchvarov7671]

She is not Russian, by the way :-)

[@OlhaBatchvarov]

Thank you! To say about such a book review - I probably need to build a model first! It's so hard to evaluate it if you don't use it for its intended purpose! And try to reproduce the technology that the author proposes in the book. The only thing I can say is that this book has high quality large format printing on glossy paper...

[@jasonguttman548]

Thank you......

[@jasonguttman548]

Kroum Batchvarov , Then why would she tell me that she's from the Ukraine?

[@kroumbatchvarov7671]

@@jasonguttman548 Exactly right: Ukraine! Not Russia. Major difference. Completely different country.

[@denisv4385]

A very detailed book on the construction of this 1/60 scale ship, with a little bit too short a history for my personal taste. The author of the book is on the Model Ship World forum: modelshipworld.com/topic/248-the-naiad-frigate-by-ed-tosti/ Thanks Olha for sharing, I would be very curious to see volume II.

[@OlhaBatchvarov]

I found the author's log on this forum with the construction of this model!