Shipcraft Special: Grand Fleet Battlecruisers

ISBN: 184832104X

Author: Backer, Steve

Condition: New

The ShipCraft series provides in-depth information about building and modifying modelkits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through abrief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships andchanges in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes andcamouflage, featuring colur profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans.The modellng section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, listscommercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints onmodifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographicgallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes witha section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevantwebsites.This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extenthas been doubled to include far more illustrations of the many different designs, from theInvincible of 1906 to the Renowns of 1915, and including the hybrid large light cruisersCourageous, Glorious and Furious.