Flower Class Corvettes: Shipcraft Special

Description

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. 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 US Navies. AUTHOR: John Lambert is well-known draughtsman who provides detailed plans for modelmakers. He has also written widely on naval subjects, mostly small warships. His collaborator is this volume is Les Brown, a lifelong modelmaker and a leading light in the Small Ships Group of the International Plastic Modellers Society. SELLING POINTS: -Everything the ship modeler needs to know about building a famous warship type -Numerous colour illustrations, plans and detail drawings -Focuses on very popular modeling subjects which are represented by a wide selection of kits 250 b/w & colour illustrations

JOHN LAMBERT is well-known draughtsman who provides detailed plans for modelmakers. He has also written widely on naval subjects, mostly small warships. His collaborator in this volume is LES BROWN, a lifelong modelmaker and a leading light in the Small Ships Group of the International Plastic Modellers Society. He recently retired from Vosper Thornycroft, the specialist warship builder.

This book is excellent value for money and highly commended not just to the ship modellers, but also very much so to naval enthusiasts who wish to have a historically accurate and detailed reference book to add to their library. I am delighted to give it five stars.--Malcolm Wright, Australian Maritime Artist & Author