Yamato Class Battleships, Shipcraft No 14

YAMATO CLASS BATTLESHIPS - SHIPCRAFT SPECIAL SERIES No 14  

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 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 tonnes. 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.

Author: Steve Wiper

Publisher:  Seaforth Publishing (2009)

ISBN: 9781848320451

Description:  64 pages, Paperback, 297 X 210 mm, 49 b/w age photos,  many colour photos of outstanding models in a variety of scales, critical reviews of available kits, 2 two-view full page drawings, 1 full page two-view coloured drawing, specification tables.

Condition: NEW COPY.

Shipping weight: 470 gr.

Tags: JAPANESE NAVY, BATTLESHIPS