This is the POINTER to the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) on ship modeling. The FAQ itself is longer posted (since September,
2001); only the HTML version is available, at:
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*This* POINTER is posted weekly. It goes to: news:rec.models.scale, news:rec.models.rc.water,alt.models.scale.ships, news:news.answers, and news:rec.answers .
Also HIGHLY recommended is the Ship Modeling Email List Server (essentially an e-mail discussion group). To subscribe, go to:
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...and follow the instructions there.The following three sites are especially useful to ship modelers!
"The Maritime History Virtual Archives": a GREAT!!! (and one of the first!) WWW location, maintained by Lars Bruzelius (in Upsala, Sweden):
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."The Information Seaway" (Clay Feldman's Seaways' Ships in Scale page) is at:
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.The Nautical Research Guild site is at:
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.John O. Kopf