Japanese Battleships, Shipcraft No 24

SHIPCRAFT No 24: JAPANESE BATTLESHIPS - Fuso and Ise Classes.

• Summary of Design History and Careers
• Full Details of Class variations and modifications
• Colour reference for paint schemes
• Gallery of photographs of outstanding models
• Critical reviews of available kits and accessories
• Sources of further information from books to websites.

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 sisterships 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 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.

This volume covers the two related classes of Japanese 14in-gunned battleships, originally built during the First World War but subsequently totally reconstructed. They are famous for the towering forward superstructure, usually described as a pagoda bridge, that they featured when rebuilt. Ise and Hyuga underwent further reconstruction during the Second World War to emerge as a unique hybrid of battleship and aircraft carrier in a desperate attempt to compensate for fleet carriers sunk earlier in the war.

Author: Robert Brown

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing (2013)

Description: 64 pages, Paperback, A4 size.

Condition: NEW COPY.

Shipping weight: 470 gr.

Tags: JAPANESE NAVY, BATTLESHIPS