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,
highlighting differences between ships 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 subjects, 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 many variations of Royal Navy wartime escort
destroyers, both the purpose-built 'Hunt' class and the conversions from
older fleet destroyers. The 'Hunts' were built in four groups (Types I
to IV), while the old 'V&W' classes were modified to Long Range Escort,
Short Range Escort and 'Wair' (anti-aircraft) variants. Also included
are the fifty ex-US 'flush-deckers' that became the 'Town' class.
With its unparalleled level of visual information - paint schemes,
models, line drawings and photographs - this book is simply the best
reference for any model maker setting out to build any of these numerous
escort types.
