Pen and Sword Books: ShipCraft 19: County Class Cruisers

ShipCraft 19: County Class Cruisers (1 reviews)
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ShipCraft Modelling
Series: ShipCraft Modelling
Paperback
64 pages
ISBN: 9781848321274
Published: 5 December 2011

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The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes with a section on research references – books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.

This volume covers the British 10,000-ton ‘Treaty Cruisers’, thirteen of which were built to three slightly varying designs between the wars. With three funnels and a high freeboard, they were impressive ships, and all enjoyed very active wartime careers - three were involved in the Bismarck action and another with the sinking of the Scharnhorst.

This is the latest book in the Ship Craft series and provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. The book consists of many line drawings and paint systems... [read full review]