Shipcraft 5 - Japanese Heavy Cruisers, Myoko and Takao classes - Softcover

Backer, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848321074 ISBN 13: 9781848321076

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing / Pen & Sword Publishing, 2015

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 sister-ships 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 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 is devoted to the largest cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Built in defiance of treaty restrictions, they were the fastest and most powerful heavy cruisers of their day, and were heavily engaged in every campaign from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Pacific War.

About this title

About the Author:

STEVE BACKER is the editor of steelnavy.com, the best warship modeling site on the web, for which he writes extensively on warship kits and accessories. He is also the author of five previous titles in this ShipCraft series, the most recent being Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seaforth Publishing / Pen & Sword Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1848321074
• ISBN 13: 9781848321076
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 64