SHIPCRAFT No 5 JAPANESE HEAVY CRUISERS

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. "Shipcraft No 5" covers the largest, fastest and most powerful heavy cruisers of their era, the Japanese "Myoko" and "Takao" classes.