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 subject of this volume is the Japanese Kongo class, four ships built
during the First World War as battlecruisers, but extensively modified
and reconstructed between the wars as fast battleships, so that each
ship presented a different appearance. They were the chosen escorts for
the elite IJN carrier forces, and saw much action during the Pacific
War.
