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Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Ships & shipping: general interest
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.This is the first volume in
the series not devoted to a naval vessel, but the most famous liner
of all time is a suitable subject as one of the most popular of all
ship modelling subjects. Apart from Titanic herself, this volume
also covers her sister ships Olympic and Britannic which enjoyed
longer and more varied careers, including wartime service as
troopship and hospital ship.
Steamboats and Sailors of the Great Lakes traces the evolution of
the Great Lakes shipping industry over the last three centuries.
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