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 class,
highlighting differences between sisterships 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 ships, and provides hints on modifying and
improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic
survey 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 is devoted to the famous ships of Admiral Hipper's First
Scouting Group. Slower but more robust than their British equivalents,
German battlecruisers enjoyed a reputation for absorbing punishment, and
although Lutzow was sunk at Jutland, Seydlitz and the rest of the
Scouting Group survived heavy damage. This book concentrates on the
seven completed ships but coverage extends to the 'proto-battlecruiser'
Blucher and the ships building or designed by the end of the war.
