German S Boats

Product Description

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 gallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales & the book concludes with a section on research references
- books monographs large-scale plans & relevant websites. The subject of this volume is the Second World War German Navys motor torpedo boats called Schnellboote known to the Allies as E-Boats. One of the most effective coastal attack craft of the time the type was built in large numbers & constantly enhanced as the war progressed giving many variants to interest modellers. With its unparalleled level of visual information
- paint schemes models line drawings & photographs
- it is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous boats.