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 majority of British wartime escort classes, from
the inter-war ASW and minesweeping sloops that culminated in the superb
Black Swan class, to the wartime designs that were originally known as
'twin-screw corvettes' but were eventually classed as frigates - the
'River' class, and their derivatives of the 'Loch/Bay' classes that were
modified for prefabricated construction. Also included are the
American-built destroyer escorts which became RN 'Captains' class
frigates and the earlier ex-US Coast Guard cutters that were listed as
sloops.
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.
