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 sister-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 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.
The five battleships of the class covered by this volume were the most
modern British capital ships to serve in the Second World War. They were
involved in many famous actions including the sinking of both Bismarck
and Scharnhorst, while Prince of Wales suffered the unfortunate
distinction of being the first capital ship sunk at sea by air attack.
