Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers by Backer, Steve - 2010

Barnsley, UK: Seaforth Publishing, 2010. First Edition. Soft cover. Very good +. 4to (30 x 21 cm). 64 pp. Glossy blue covers with drawings of cruiser to upper and lower. White titles to upper cover, black titles to spine. Text block tight and unmarked.

Paperback. Very Good.

Seaforth Publishing / Classic Warships Publishing, 2010-10-19. Paperback. Used: Good.

Seaforth Publishing, 2010. New book, 64 pages. 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 survey 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 websites. The subject of this volume is the largest and most sophisticated German cruiser class of WW2. The… Read More