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,
using scale plans to highlight differences between sisterships and
changes in their appearance over their careers, then moves to an
extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or a
surviving example of the ship. Hints on building the model, and on
modifying and improving the basic kit, are followed by a section on
paint schemes and camouflage, featuring numerous color profiles and
highly-detailed line drawings. The strengths and weaknesses of available
kits of the ships are reviewed, and the book concludes with a section on
research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant
websites.
For the first volume in this series, the author has chosen the German
'pocket battleships' of WW2, the best-known of which was the Graf Spee
of Battle of the River Plate fame. This innovative and infamous class of
surface raiders has long been a popular subject for ship modelers, many
manufacturers producing kits of the Graf Spee and the rather different
Admiral Scheer and Lutzow. This book will show ship modelers how to turn
their kits into something really special, but its unparalleled level of
visual information will also appeal to the more general warship
enthusiast.
