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ShipCraft 10: Bismarck & Tirpitz (Paperback)

Maritime > Seaforth Publishing > Seaforth: ShipCraft Military > Modelling

By Steve Backer
Seaforth Publishing
Series: Ship Craft Modelling
Pages: 64
Illustrations: 130 colour & black and white illustrations
ISBN: 9781848320055
Published: 22nd May 2008
Last Released: 3rd May 2023

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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 famous German sister-ships whose fates were so very different - Bismarck had a short but glorious career, first sinking HMS Hood and then in turn being sunk by the Home Fleet, whereas the Tirpitz spent most of the war skulking in Norwegian fjords, fending off attacks by midget submarines and carrier aircraft before being finally sunk by enormous specially designed bombs dropped by RAF Lancasters.

In short, this book is, without a doubt, the essential reference source for anyone contemplating, or in the process of building a model of one of these famous battleships.

Model Boats, December 2019 – reviewed by John Deamer

'Am informative title that will be of interest to naval enthusiasts and modellers alike.'

Ships Monthly, May 2010

About Steve Backer

STEVE BACKER is the editor of the respected SteelNavy web site for ship modellers and the author of two other titles, Japanese Heavy Cruisers and Bismarck and Tirpitz, in this ShipCraft series.

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