COUNTY CLASS CRUISERS

Serie, a cura di Roger Chesneau, per i modellisti navali con ogni tipo di informazione e dettaglio per la costruzione di perfetti modelli di famose navi da guerra. Capitoli su come apportare modifiche e migliorie a modelli realizzati con kit, sulla colorazione e camouflage, sulla presentazione ecc. Ogni volume contiene 50 foto a colori di modelli e dove possibile della nave, e 50 illustrazioni e disegni al tratto.

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller 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 colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling 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. This volume covers the British 10,000-ton ‘Treaty Cruisers’, thirteen of which were built to three slightly varying designs between the wars. With three funnels and a high freeboard, they were impressive ships, and all enjoyed very active wartime careers - three were involved in the Bismarck action and another with the sinking of the Scharnhorst.