Shipcraft 14 - Yamato Class Battleships

Shipcraft 14 - Yamato Class Battleships
- Reference Book
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.
Country USA
Brand Seaforth Publishing
Manufacturer Seaforth Publishing
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Shipcraft9781848320451
ReleaseDate 2015-03-19
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781848320451

Country	USA
Brand	Seaforth Publishing
Manufacturer	Seaforth Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Shipcraft9781848320451
ReleaseDate	2015-03-19
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781848320451

Shipcraft 14 - Yamato Class Battleships

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