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Updated January 2, 2025
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Essential skills for scale modelers
Skinner, Aaron.
Paper Book
Mastering basic skills is crucial for building realistic scale models. Essential Skills for Scale Modelers, written by FineScale Modeler's Aaron Skinner, lays the foundation needed to build, paint, weather, and display all types of models. Learn how to airbrush, work with resin, handle photoetched...
The beginner's photography guide : the ultimate step-by-step manual for getting the most from your digital camera
Gatcum, Chris.
Paper Book
All you need is a digital camera and this bestselling book to unlock your full potential as a photographer! This handbook will help you improve your skills, give you a fresh perspective on how to approach a shoot, and which equipment will work best. If you have a burst of...
52 weeks of socks
Hietala, Jonna
Paper Book
52 Weeks of Socks is a modern collection of sock patterns from Nordic knitting experts Laine. What is more special than a pair of hand-knitted socks? Perfect for curling up at home on cosy winter evenings and crisp autumn mornings, or for hiking adventures over...
Watercolor textures for artists explore simple techniques to create amazing works of art
Calderón, Ana Victoria, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Join artist, author, and popular online art teacher Ana Victoria Calderon to learn simple painting techniques that will help you cultivate your creative flow and create beautiful art.
Home maintenance
Kraeutler, Tom
Paper Book
Take the intimidation out of common home repair jobs Home Maintenance For Dummies gives you the know-how you need to inspect, tune up, and make repairs to every room of your house. Learn how to stop drafty windows and doors, fix roof leaks, unclog pipes, silence squeaky...
Creative woodturning projects
Findley, Richard
Paper Book
In Creative Woodturning Projects Richard Findley researches and masters newand innovative techniques to create 16 inspiring woodturning projects. The techniquesexplored include , pyrography, multi-axis turning, carving, texturing,...
Edward's menagerie over 50 easy-to-make soft toy animal crochet patterns
Lord, Kerry
Paper Book
Get ready to spend some time with a suave high-flying rhino, a lovesick elephant who knows her way around a kitchen and a seriously chivalrous tiger... in a new and updated edition of this crochet classic! With just two weeks to go before baby Edward's due date, yarn...
How to be a manga artist
Pagani, Balthazar, 1975- author.
Paper Book
The ultimate guide for aspiring artists with a love of manga. Following How to Draw a Graphic Novel, Balthazar Pagani returns, joined by manga expert Asuka Ozumi, to demystify the process of creating manga, from the creative spark that inspires a story, to what it's...
The joy of birdwatching
Isalska, Anita
Paper Book
"this book delivers on the magic that birds can hold" - Birdlife Magazine "acts as both a travel guide and a partial field guide, whetting one's appetite to go out and get birding" - Organic Gardener Magazine Discover 60 uplifting birding adventures...

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