Sectional model
Scale: Unknown. Instructional sectional model depicting the third stage of making a wax hull for a tank testing model. It depicts the wax hull removed from the mould in its raw state, before shaping to the required high level of accuracy. It is one of a series of five midship sections together with black and white photographs showing the stages in production of a wax tank testing model, all sharing the same glass and wooden display case: see SLR 2626, SLR 2897, SLR 2899 and SLR 2900. See SLR2626 for Chatham Storage measurements.
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Object Details
ID: | SLR2898 |
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Collection: | Ship models |
Type: | Sectional model |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Unknown |
Date made: | Unknown |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
Measurements: | Overall model and original case: 385 mm x 1485 mm x 375 mm |