BUT, and there is a big but, when I attempted to build one of the boats from this book today, the “USS Enterprise”, I discovered there are pieces missing! By missing, I mean they never existed. Each boat model project has 1-4 pages of punch-out parts and a small color-coded diagram of how the pieces are assembled. Before I built the model, I noticed there was level of the boat in the diagram which I couldn’t find amongst the punch-out pieces. I thought that perhaps the diagram just wasn’t clear, and that once I actually began gluing and assembling, the construction would become clear. But no! there really aren’t enough pieces! I examined the binding edges to make sure there wasn’t a page missing or torn out, but this isn’t the case. I build complex architectural models all the time, and this simple model literally can’t be built.

In short– buy this book if you like attractive design books. don’t buy it if you just want to make the boats!