Shipcraft 5: Japanese Heavy Cruisers: Myoko and Takao Classes

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 and highly-detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modeling 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 is devoted to the largest cruisers in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Built in defiance of treaty restrictions, they were the fastest and most powerful heavy cruisers of their day, and were heavily engaged in every campaign from Pearl Harbor to the end of the Pacific War."

Seria ShipCraft ofera informatii detaliate despre construirea si modificarea seturilor de modele de tipuri celebre de nave de razboi. Ilustrata abundent, fiecare carte il conduce pe modelator printr-o scurta istorie a clasei de subiect, subliniind diferentele dintre navele surori si schimbarile in aspectul lor in cariera lor.