The Ship Craft series provides in-depth information about building & 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 & changes in their appearance over their careers. This
Includes:: paint schemes & camouflage featuring colour profiles & highly detailed line drawings & scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths & weaknesses of available kits lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships & provides hints on modifying & improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic survey of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales & the book concludes with a section on research references
- books monographs large-scale plans & websites. The subject of this volume is the largest & most sophisticated German cruiser class of WW2. The five ships suffered very different fates. Blucher was sunk during the invasion of Norway in 1940 whereas Admiral Hipper fought right through the war. The most famous Prinz Eugen escaped when Bismarck was sunk & survived to be expended in a postwar Atomic bomb test. Seydlitz was intended to be converted to an aircraft carrier but never finished while Lutzow was sold to Russia & sunk by her erstwhile owners.STEVE BACKER is the editor of steelnavy.com the best warship modelling site on the web for which he writes extensively on warship kits & accessories. He is also the author of four previous titles Japanese Heavy Cruisers British Battlecruisers Essex Class Carriers & Bismarck & Tirpitz in this Ship Craft series.