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Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Models & model-making > General
This new book will be an essential reference for modellers and
wargamers who build and paint World War II British armoured
fighting vehicles. It provides extensive information on different
types of vehicles, describing when they were used, by whom and for
what purpose. In addition, the many modifications made to vehicles
during the war are included, with guidance on how to create these
for models. Step-by-step building and painting guides illustrate
vehicles in 1/35, 1/72 and 1/76 scale. This book features models,
often with a comparison of models from different manufacturers, for
the following: M3 Grant Mk1, including a North African version;
Cromwell Mk IV; Royal Marine Centaur; Cavalier Observation Post;
Sherman M4A1 and Crab; Crusader III AA Mk 1; Matilda; Morris and
Guy Quads; Bedford QLs; Scammell Pioneer Heavy Artillery tractor
conversion; Anti-tank guns, e.g. the 'Pheasant', field guns,
anti-aircraft guns, etc and, finally, figures which include uniform
painting guides.
Model ship building does not have to be an expensive hobby. The
author takes you by the hand on a journey through one of the oldest
crafts - nowadays a hobby - and shows how you can build an end
product of fascination, history, skill and value using low-cost
materials and a minimum of tools - from 'scratch' in fact. The book
starts by explaining hull lines and hull construction methods, then
moves on to masts, yards, booms and gaffs, deck equipment and
furniture, anchors, rigging and blocks, armament and simple sail
making. Finally instruction is given to painting, mounting and
displaying the models. The author's text is packed with useful
hints and tips derived from his lifetime of modelling which,
together with the large number of detailed drawings and photographs
depicting many of the ship models in his collection, some showing
useful close-ups on details and fittings, provides a very practical
guide to the art and craft of model ship building.
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