Shipcraft 1 - German Pocket Battleships - Softcover

Chesneau, Roger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1861762097 ISBN 13: 9781861762092

Publisher: Chatham Publishing, 2004

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, using scale plans to highlight differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or a surviving example of the ship. Hints on building the model, and on modifying and improving the basic kit, are followed by a section on paint schemes and camouflage, featuring numerous color profiles and highly-detailed line drawings. The strengths and weaknesses of available kits of the ships are reviewed, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites. For the first volume in this series, the author has chosen the German 'pocket battleships' of WW2, the best-known of which was the Graf Spee of Battle of the River Plate fame. This innovative and infamous class of surface raiders has long been a popular subject for ship modelers, many manufacturers producing kits of the Graf Spee and the rather different Admiral Scheer and Lutzow. This book will show ship modelers how to turn their kits into something really special, but its unparalleled level of visual information will also appeal to the more general warship enthusiast.

About this title

About the Author

Roger Chesneau is a lifelong ship modeller and author of numerous naval books, including Ship Models in Plastic.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chatham Publishing
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1861762097
• ISBN 13: 9781861762092
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64