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 the 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. This is the first volume in the series not devoted to a naval vessel, but the most famous liner of all time is a suitable subject as one of the most popular of all ship modelling subjects. Apart from Titanic herself, this volume also covers her sister ships Olympic and Britannic which enjoyed longer and more varied careers, including wartime service as troopship and hospital ship. SELLING POINTS: ?Everything the ship modeller needs to know about building a famous ship. ?Numerous detailed plans and colour illustrations. ?Focuses on very popular modelling subjects that are represented by a wide selection of kits. AUTHOR: Peter Davies-Gardner is an architectural modelmaker by profession, but builds ship models in his spare time. His outstanding skill led to a commission to build an 18-foot long model of Titanic which is unique in its detail and level of accuracy. It was the subject of his first book RMS Titanic: A Modelmaker's Manual, reprinted by Seaforth in 2010. ILLUSTRATIONS: 130 b/w, colour and line illustrations *
