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 two German ships which form the subject of this volume were among the first products of rearmament under Hitler. For political reasons they were neither as large nor as well armed as foreign equivalents but they were very fast which led them to be described as battlecruisers in some quarters. They enjoyed an adventurous war both surviving heavy damage before Scharnhorst was sunk in an epic gun battle off the North Cape while Gneisenau succumbed to heavy air attack.