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THE FULLY FRAMED MODEL, HMN SWAN CLASS SLOOPS 1767-1780 Volume II REVISED
David Antscherl
His principal activities at present are stage design, writing, teaching theater arts and fine arts, conserving paintings and other artifacts, and commissioned model making. In 2000 David won the Howard I. Chapelle Memorial Award and a Silver medal for Polyphemus at the Nautical Research Guild annual conference. As a result of meeting Greg write The Swan Class Practicum on which this book is based. SEAWATCHBOOKS LLC
David is an “empty-nester” with one daughter
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and two stepchildren. He lives in Waterloo,
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Kit Kaboodle.
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DAVID ANTSCHERL was born in London, England in 1944. When he was very young, his father took him to the annual Model Engineer Exhibitions. What he saw there inspired him and he became a life-long modeler. David’s first completed ship model was the Mayflower II, built while the prototype was being constructed in 1954 at Brixham, Devon. The teenaged David was encouraged by the National Maritime Museum’s Len Tucker to join a ship-modeling club. The youngest member of the Greenwich and District Ship Model Society, David received much encouragement from its members, and in 1962 won a bronze medal for his model of Nimble, a
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Herbert at that time, David was encouraged to
The Fully Framed Model, HMN SWAN CLASS SLOOPS 1767-1780
The Fully Framed Model, HMN SWAN CLASS SLOOPS 1767-1780 VOLUME II REVISED
Revenue cutter of 1812. David immigrated to Canada in 1968, and began work on his model of Polyphemus. For many years David worked as a corporate
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graphic designer, but gradually took on increasing amounts of theatrical design work. (Continued on back flap)