British Destroyers: J-C and Battle Classes (Ship Craft) - Softcover

Brown, Les

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848321805 ISBN 13: 9781848321809

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling 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 survey 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.

A follow-up to ShipCraft 11 on inter-war destroyers, this new volume deals with the later classes which were the most modern British destroyers of the Second World War. Marked by a common single-funneled silhouette, they were actually very varied, ranging from the large and powerful J to N flotillas, via the austere ‘War Emergency’ classes that were built in large numbers, to the radically different ‘Battle’ class, designed with a powerful AA armament for service in the Pacific.

About this title

About the Author

Les Brown is an author and maritime historian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848321805
• ISBN 13: 9781848321809
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64