Japanese Battleships
Japanese Battleships

Author: Robert Brown

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2016-10-10

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1473883393

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This fully illustrated guide offers historical context and step-by-step instruction for building and modifying Japanese battleship models. This volume in the ShipCraft series covers the two related classes of Japanese 14in-gunned battleships, originally built during the First World War but subsequently reconstructed. These ships are famous for their towering forward superstructure, usually described as a pagoda bridge, that they featured when rebuilt. The Ise-class ships underwent further reconstruction during the Second World War to emerge as a unique hybrid of battleship and aircraft carrier to compensate for fleet carriers sunk earlier in the war. This lavishly illustrated guide takes readers through a brief history of the Fuso-class and Ise-class ships, highlighting differences between sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers. It features color profiles of paint schemes as well as detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This volume also includes a photographic survey of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales and a section on further research references

Kongo Class Battlecruisers
Kongo Class Battlecruisers

Author: Steve Wiper

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Published: 2008-05-30

Total Pages: 67

ISBN-13: 1848320043

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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. The subject of this volume is the Japanese Kongo class, four ships built during the First World War as battlecruisers, but extensively modified and reconstructed between the wars as fast battleships, so that each ship presented a different appearance. They were the chosen escorts for the elite IJN carrier forces, and saw much action during the Pacific War.

Essex Class Aircraft Carriers of the Second World War
Essex Class Aircraft Carriers of the Second World War

Author: Steve Backer

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Published: 2009-03-19

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 1848320183

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The latest volume covers the hugely important American carrier of the Second World War. Built in larger numbers than any fleet carrier before or since, the Essex class can claim to be the US Navy's most significant weapon in the defeat of Japan. Carrying up to 100 aircraft and capable of absorbing enormous punishment (not one was sunk), they spearheaded the Fast Carrier Task Forces for most of the Pacific War.??The heavily illustrated work contains everything a modeller needs to know about this prolific class.

GET THAT FIGHTER
GET THAT FIGHTER

Author: Anon

Publisher: Naval & Military Press

Published: 2016-10-07

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9781783312399

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"Restricted" manual dated November 1, 1943, published by the Army Air Forces, for the instruction of air gunners. Extensive information for air gunners on bombers, with diagrams, on how to shoot down enemy aircraft, both German and Japanse. The manual also includes several double pages, each devoted to a different type of enemy aircraft, showing locations of the pilot, the fuel tank, oxygen tanks, oil tanks, and other targets.

Yamato Class Battleships
Yamato Class Battleships

Author: Steve Wiper

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781848320451

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"First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Seaforth Publishing"--Title page verso.

The Battleship Warspite
The Battleship Warspite

Author: Robert Brown

Publisher: Seaforth Publishing

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781526719379

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The technical details of British warships were recorded in a set of plans produced by the builders on completion of every ship. Known as the 'as fitted' general arrangements, these drawings documented the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it entered service. They were very large - more than 12 feet long for capital ships - highly detailed, annotated and labelled, and drawn with exquisite skill in multi-coloured inks and washes. Today these plans form part of the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, which is using the latest scanning technology to make digital copies of the highest quality. This book is the first of a series based entirely on these draughts which will depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail - complete sets in full colour, with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and comprehensible.

Fubuki-Class Destroyers
Fubuki-Class Destroyers

Author: Lars Ahlberg

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2021-11-28

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 9780764362873

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The World War II-era destroyers of the Japanese Fubuki class were the first of a type sometimes referred to as "super destroyers." These destroyers were extremely large and heavily armed with guns and torpedoes. Ironically, the IJN was pushed to create heavier destroyers by the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty, which discouraged the construction of new capital ships. Particular emphasis was placed on ships that were important for the night battle preceding the "decisive battle." Thereby the stage was prepared for the Fubuki class, and it introduced a new standard for Japanese destroyers, a standard followed by almost all Japanese destroyers designed afterward. Presented here is the history of their design, construction, and combat history, relying primarily on original Japanese war-era source material, including numerous diagrams and photos.

Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor

Author: Newt Gingrich

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780312366230

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The action-packed first book in the new historical series by acclaimed authors Newt Gingrich and William R.Forstchen

Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers
Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers

Author: Roger Chesneau

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2013-11-14

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1473831644

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This fully illustrated guide offers historical context and step-by-step instruction for building and modifying US aircraft carrier models. This volume in the ShipCraft series covers the Yorktown class of American aircraft carriers. These legendary ships kept the Japanese at bay through World War II, in the dark days between Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Midway, where the USS Yorktown herself was lost. The USS Hornet launched the famous Doolittle Raid on Japan before being sunk at Santa Cruz in October 1942, but the USS Enterprise survived the fierce fighting of the early war years to become the US Navy's most decorated ship. This lavishly illustrated guide takes readers through a brief history of the development and careers of the Yorktown class. With its unparalleled level of visual information—including paint schemes, line drawings and photographs—it is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous carriers.

Flower Class Corvettes
Flower Class Corvettes

Author: John Lambert

Publisher: Pen and Sword

Published: 2010-10-30

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1783469609

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A guide to creating models of the World War II warship, featuring history on the ship as well as crafting tips. 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 sister-ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring color profiles, 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 includes all the features of the regular series, but the extent has been doubled to include far more detailed drawings of a class of ship that was built in huge numbers and in many variations. Mainstay of the Atlantic battle against the U-boats, Flower class corvettes were used by the British, Canadian, French, and U.S. Navies. “An excellent guide to an important ship in the Second World War, for modeler and maritime enthusiasts alike.” —The Nautical Magazine