Bøger af Steve Backer

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying modelkits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through abrief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between sister-ships andchanges in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes andcamouflage, featuring colur profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans.The modellng section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, listscommercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints onmodifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographicgallery of selected high-quality models in a variety of scales, and the book concludes witha section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant>This volume follows the format of the highly successful Flower Class where the extenthas been doubled to include far more illustrations of the many different designs, from theInvincible of 1906 to the Renowns of 1915, and including the hybrid 'large light cruisers'Courageous, Glorious and Furious.

Everything the ship modeller needs to know about building a famous warship. Focuses on very popular modelling subjects that are represented by a wide selection of kits.

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.