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, using scale
plans to highlight differences between sister ships and changes in their
appearance over their careers, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of
either a high-quality model or a surviving example of the ship. Hints on
building the model, and on modifying and improving the basic kit, are followed
by a section on paint schemes and camouflage, featuring numerous colour profiles
and highly-detailed line drawings. The strengths and weaknesses of available
kits of the ships are reviewed, and the book concludes with a section on
research references. With over six hundred units completed between 1935 and the
end of the war, the German Type VII was the most widely used submarine design of
all time, and probably did more than any other single weapon system to threaten
the Allied victory. The popularity of the Type VII as a modelling subject,
already very high, is likely to soar following the recent release of a large
1:72 scale kit.
