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.
The two ships covered in this volume were the only capital ships
designed and built between the wars - a special concession of the
Washington Treaty's ban on new battleships - and they were unlike
anything before them, with the superstructure three-quarters aft and all
main armament turrets forward of the bridge. During the war Nelson
survived mine and torpedo damage, while Rodney played a major part in
the destruction of the Bismarck, both surviving to be broken up
post-war.
