German S-Boats (Shipcraft 6) - Softcover

Wiper, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 186176278X ISBN 13: 9781861762788

Publisher: Chatham Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

Synopsis:

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 sisterships and changes in their appearance over their careers, and 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 - books, plans and relevant websites. This volume covers the heavily armed coastal craft known to the British as E-Boats. Fast, seaworthy and outgunning Allied MTBs and PT-boats, they were probably the most effective inshore attack craft of the war. Large scale (1/72) kits exist of both early and later versions, and they are popular modelling subjects throughout the world.

This book will show ship modellers how to turn their kits into something really special, but its unparalleled level of visual information will also appeal to the general warship enthusiast.

About the Author:

Steve Wiper runs a company producing high-quality resin kits and is also the publisher of the Classic Warships monographs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatham Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 186176278X
• ISBN 13: 9781861762788
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64