Iowa Class Battleships: Shipcraft 17

Iowa Class Battleships: Shipcraft 17 by ABBEY LESTER


ISBN
9781848321113
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
64
Dimensions
210 x 297mm

The "ShipCraft" series provides in-depth information about building and 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 and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling 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 basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic gallery 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. The Iowa class were the largest, fastest and most modern US battleships of the war, and the formal surrender of Japan was signed on the deck of one of them, USS Missouri. Modernised post-war, they served in Korea, Vietnam and as late as the first Gulf War. They are among the most popular subjects of all for model kits. SELLING POINTS: ?Everything the ship modeller needs to know about building a famous warship. ?Numerous detailed plans and colour illustrations. ?Focuses on very popular modelling subjects that are represented by a wide selection of kits. AUTHOR: Lester Abbey is a lifelong warship modeller and expert in the US Navy. An American citizen, he now runs a business in New Zealand. He is the author of two previous volumes in this series, on Fletcher class destroyers and New Orleans class cruisers. ILLUSTRATIONS: 130 b/w, colour and line illustrations *
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