A toy block shipbuilding kit, with specially formed pieces to provide realistic ships stems and sterns. A number of first blocks are provided with curved sides, and interlocking projections and projection-receiving portions formed on the top and bottom faces. When stacked upon each other, the blocks are staggered and form a continuous upwardly sloping stem or stern portion, and can interlock with other conventional parallelepiped blocks to form the ship body. Specialty second blocks are provided for forming the top or bottom terminations of stacked first blocks, and specialty third blocks may be provided having sides extending above the top faces thereof to constitute side rails for a ship's stem and stern.
The invention concerns a toy ship having a hull part (1) which is blow moulded as a closed unit, and an upper part (2) which is injection moulded, the two parts being assembled to form the toy ship. The novelty of the toy ship is that at least one area of the upper part (2) is provided with coupling studs for coupling with other toy building elements (3), that this area is located between the outer, peripheral edge of the upper part (2) and the joint between the hull part (1) and the upper part (2), and that the outer, peripheral edge of the upper part (2) is cantilevered at least around the area provided with coupling studs.
A toy comprising a plurality of removable members, each member having a predetermined shape, such that the members, when assembled in a predetermined order, form the outer shape of the toy, each member also having a plurality of removable elements of a predetermined shape that are insertable into a correspondingly shaped void in the member, whereby the toy may be assembled with or without the elements being within their corresponding members.
A technique is described for the making of frames for an authentic plank-on-frame ship model kit. A wooden boat hull is made with a hull thickness that is the same for that of the frames. The hull has the internal and external surface contours desired for the ship model. The boat hull is then sliced at regular intervals to form individual segments representative of the desired frames. A set of frames is then selected from the sliced segments for an authentic plank-on-frame ship model.
