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Japanese Battleships

By Robert Brown

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Japanese Battleships

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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 sisterships 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 survey 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 covers the two related classes of Japanese 14in-gunned battleships, originally built during the First World War but subsequently totally reconstructed. They are famous for the towering forward superstructure, usually described as a pagoda bridge, that they featured when rebuilt. Ise and Hyuga underwent further reconstruction during the Second World War to emerge as a unique hybrid of battleship and aircraft carrier in a desperate attempt to compensate for fleet carriers sunk earlier in the war.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
64
Release Date:
2017-03-03
Publication Date:
2017-04-14
Publisher:
Pen & Sword Books
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1473883377
ISBN13:
9781473883376
Weight:
353 g
Height:
207 cm
Width:
294 cm
Thickness:
10 cm
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