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The Future Architect’s Handbook

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For children with a passion for drawing, or dreams of creating buildings, this book explores how architects really work, taking the young reader through the entire process for planning and designing a house. Learn about an architect’s four main drawings: the Site Plan, Floor Plan, Section, and Elevation—including the concept of drawing each plan to scale. Aspiring architects discover design techniques, along with different, exciting architectural styles used today. All of this is brought to life in freehand, pen-and-ink architectural drawings that will inspire children to apply these lessons to their own designs. This book is the perfect introduction to architecture, revealing why buildings look and function as they do. While this creative book is ideal for the middle grades, ages 9-12, even adults will find it inspiring.

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One Hundred and One Track Plans for Model Railroaders (Model Railroad Handbook, No. 3)

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This is a 72 page guide to 101 Model Railroading Track Plans from
Kalmbach Books.

Every one of the 101 track plans in this book is an adventure in model
railroad design. A complete miniature world with a theme, purpose, and
atmosphere. The plans range in size from tiny layouts that would fit on a card
table to a huge estate-size railroad designed for a specifically built
building. The author also explains how to convert the plans for use in the
various model railroad scales, how to build a layout from a plan, and how to
choose the plan best suited to your space and personality. Plans are included
for N, HO, S and O scale railroads.

FEATURES: Glossy softcover 72 page book.
Includes techniques helpful for the beginner as well as the advanced
rail modeler.
Includes incredibly detailed scale drawings for each layout.
Each plan is built around a railroad theme with an atmosphere of
real, or sometimes imaginary countryside that can be used on
any model railroad. The plans, arranged by size, are presented
in simple steps to help you:
-Choose the best plan
-Modify it if desired
-Build the railroad of your dreams!

INCLUDES: One 72 page 101 Model Railroading Track Plans Book

SPECS: Pages: 72
Width: 8-1/4″ (209mm)
Height: 10-3/4″ (289mm)

COMMENTS: This book is from the publishers of Model Railroader Magazine, and
many of these plans have never before appeared elsewhere.

Kalmbach

Part KAL12012

Product Features

  • Used Book in Good Condition

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Pro Modeler’s Handbook

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Incredible Painting and Weathering Tips Used by Professional Modelers.

Learn the Same Tips and Techniques the Award-Winning Modelers Use! It’s Really Easy and Fun… Once You Know the Secrets!

Do Your Models and Buildings Look Like Real-Life Miniatures… or Do They Look Like Toys?

Why ‘thinking in scale’ is so important.
What colors to use, and the kinds of paints that produce professional results.
Where to buy paints and save BIG over hobby store prices.
The best glue to use no matter what material you model in; wood, metal, plastic, etc.
Why if you skip this important ‘first step’, your results will always look, “just ok.”
The ‘magic’ paint brush master craftsmen use to get award-winning results. It’s available at any hobby shop or arts and crafts store.
How to get a realistic ‘peeling-paint look’ for wood.
How to ‘weather and age’ brick and stone.
How to make roofs and buildings look like they’ve been beaten by wind, rain, sun, and snow.
How to create the ‘illusion of age’.
Learn techniques to RUST your buildings, locomotives, and cars.
A special ‘solution’ to use for the final touch on buildings, structures, rolling stock, and even scenery.
Why ‘common’ drug store items may be your best choice for weathering.
The ‘must-have’ tools for master-modeling.
How to mix your own weathering solutions.
And much, much more!

No matter what time period you’re modeling, or what scale you like, with our new reference guide, PRO MODELER’S HANDBOOK, you’ll learn the tips and tricks master craftsmen use to create their professional models. You can even use these techniques to make your trains, vehicles, and scenery look better too.

There are just a few simple steps to making your models look real and life-like. Only a few colors of paint to use to get the best results. A ‘magic’ paintbrush and a few award-winning secrets we share with you.

Learn the tips and techniques provided and beam with pride as your friends and family wonder how you made your models look so real.

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Handbook of Model Rocketry, 7th Edition (NAR Official Handbook)

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A fully updated new edition of the bible of model rocketry and the official handbook of the National Association of Rocketry G. Harry Stine was one of the founders of model rocketry and one of its most accomplished and respected figures. His Handbook of Model Rocketry has long been recognized as the most authoritative and reliable resource in the field. Now fully updated and expanded by Harry’s son Bill Stine, who inherited his father’s passion for model rockets, the new Seventh Edition includes the many changes in the hobby that have occurred since the last edition was published, such as new types of rockets, motors, and electronic payloads, plus computer software and Internet resources. This new edition also includes new photos and a new chapter on high-power rocketry.
G. Harry Stine, founder and one-time president of the National Association of Rocketry, started the world’s first model rocket company, whose kits are now in the Smithsonian. Bill Stine, also a model rocket expert, is the founder and president of Quest Aerospace Inc.

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BIM Handbook: A Guide to Building Information Modeling for Owners, Managers, Designers, Engineers and Contractors

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“The BIM Handbook is an extensively researched and meticulously written book, showing evidence of years of work rather than something that has been quickly put together in the course of a few months. It brings together most of the current information about BIM, its history, as well as its potential future in one convenient place, and can serve as a handy reference book on BIM for anyone who is involved in the design, construction, and operation of buildings and needs to know about the technologies that support it. The need for such a book is indisputable, and it is terrific that Chuck Eastman and his team were able to step up to the plate and make it happen. Thanks to their efforts, anyone in the AEC industry looking for a deeper understanding of BIM now knows exactly where to look for it.”
—AECbytes book review, August 28, 2008 (www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/BIMHandbook.html)

Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings

Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. BIM is beginning to change the way buildings look, the way they function, and the ways in which they are designed and built.

The BIM Handbook, Second Edition provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team. Updates to this edition include:

Completely updated material covering the current practice and technology in this fast-moving field

Expanded coverage of lean construction and its use of BIM, with special focus on Integrated Project Delivery throughout the book

New insight on the ways BIM facilitates sustainable building

New information on interoperability schemas and collaboration tools

Six new case studies

Painting a colorful and thorough picture of the state of the art in building information modeling, the BIM Handbook, Second Edition guides readers to successful implementations, helping them to avoid needless frustration and costs and take full advantage of this paradigm-shifting approach to construct better buildings that consume fewer materials and require less time, labor, and capital resources.

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Giant Scale R/C Handbook

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This 154 page Handbook is the complete resource guide for building a large scale radio controlled aircraft. It includes complete, cross referenced directories of plans for over 400 scale aircraft, as well as a directory of over 200 engines (single cylinder, multi-cylinder, glow fuel powered, and gasoline powered) that are suitable for large scale use. Also included is a cross referenced directory of servos that have the muscle for a large aircraft. All of the contact information for these designers and manufacturers is included as well.
In addition, there are complete plans, and detailed construction article for building a very inexpensive Phony Fokker, a “stand way off” scale model of a Fokker Eindecker. You can build this entire aircraft, including the engine, for under $200. The detailed article shows how to construct the aircraft (from reinforced, corrugated cardboard), and how to convert an inexpensive weed trimmer engine for use as an aircraft powerplant. There are over a dozen technical articles,on covering and finishing techniques (with both Monokote film coverings, and conventional fabric and paint), control linkage geometry, converting a large scale ARF (almost ready to fly model) to electric power, duplicating full scale panel lines and fabric rib stitching, and how to calculate the wing loading, mean aerodynamic chord, etc. to make sure that your model will fly properly. There is even an article on photographing full scale aircraft, to use for research and documentation purposes on your scale model project. If you have ever thought of building a large R/C model, this book is for you. This can be the gateway to an exciting and challenging life long hobby.

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The Architecture Student’s Handbook of Professional Practice

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Written by The American Institute of Architects, this is the definitive textbook on practice issues written specifically for architecture students. Specifically written for emerging architects, this is the first unabbreviated guide specifically for architecture students about to begin their careers. It is required reading in a professional practice course that architecture students must take within their final two years of school.

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