A half hull model ship (also known as a "half hull" or "half ship") is a
wooden model ship
Wooden ship models or wooden model ships are scale representations of ships, constructed mainly of wood. This type of model has been built for over two thousand years.
Basic types of wooden ship model construction
There are five basic types of c ...
featuring only one half of a boat's
hull
Hull may refer to:
Structures
* Chassis, of an armored fighting vehicle
* Fuselage, of an aircraft
* Hull (botany), the outer covering of seeds
* Hull (watercraft), the body or frame of a ship
* Submarine hull
Mathematics
* Affine hull, in affi ...
without
rigging
Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support a sailing ship or sail boat's masts—''standing rigging'', including shrouds and stays—and which adjust the position of the vessel's sails and spars to which they are ...
or other fixtures.
Background
Prior to the twentieth century, half hull model ships were constructed by
shipwrights as a means of planning a ship's design and
sheer and ensuring that the ship would be
symmetrical. The half hulls were mounted on a board and were exact
scale
Scale or scales may refer to:
Mathematics
* Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points
* Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original
* Scale factor, a number ...
replicas of the actual ship's hull. With the advent of computer design, half hulls are now built as decorative
nautical art
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea—a genre parti ...
and constructed after a ship is completed.
["Half-Hull Modeling," (The Apprenticeshop, Bath, ME USA:1980)]
See also
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Wooden model ship
Wooden ship models or wooden model ships are scale representations of ships, constructed mainly of wood. This type of model has been built for over two thousand years.
Basic types of wooden ship model construction
There are five basic types of c ...
*
Marine Art
Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art (that is, painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture) that portrays or draws its main Sea in culture, inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the seaâ ...
References
External links
Half Hull Boat Modelling:An Old Art Turned Full Circle
Model boats
Model
Marine art
Ship design
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