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, scale plans and relevant websites.
The Yamato class battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy were the
largest warships of the Second World War and the largest battleships
ever constructed, displacing 78,800 tons. They also carried the largest
naval artillery ever fitted to a warship - 18in guns. Neither Yamato nor
her sistership Musashi made much impact on the War. Musashi was sunk
during the battle of Leyte Gulf while Yamato, deployed in a deliberate
suicide attack on Allied forces at the battle of Okinawa, was finally
sunk by US carrier-based aircraft; Not 300 of her 3,330 crew survived.
