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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 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 volume covers the British 10,000-ton 'Treaty Cruisers, thirteen of which were built to three slightly varying designs between the wars. With three funnels and a high freeboard, they were impressive ships, and all enjoyed very active wartime careers – three were involved in the Bismarck action and another with the sinking of the Scharnhorst. AUTHOR: Les Brown is a leading light in the Small Ships Group of the International Plastic Modellers Society and the editor of their Newsletter. His previous contributions to this series are Flower Class Corvettes, British Destroyers and Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships. SELLING POINTS: . Everything the ship modeller needs to know about building a famous warship . Numerous detailed plans and colour illustrations . Focus on very popular modelling subjects that are represented by a wide selection of kits 130 b/w, colour & line drawings

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This is the latest book in the Ship Craft series and provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. The book consists of many line drawings and paint systems together with historic pictures of these warships and an extensive list of model kits. An excellent book for the model maker or naval researcher. - Marine Model magazine

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LES BROWN is a leading light in the Small Warships Group of the IPMS and the editor of their newsletter. He is the author of a number of titles in the ShipCraft series, including two on British destroyers, and, with John Lambert, he produced two larger works, one on 'Flower' class corvettes and another on Allied torpedo boats. He also wrote the volume on Black Swan Class Sloops in Seaforth's 'Original Builders' Plans' series.

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