Bismarck and Tirpitz, Backer, Steve

Автор: Backer, Steve
Название:  Bismarck and Tirpitz
Перевод названия: Стив Беккер: Корабли классов Бисмарк и Тирпиц
ISBN: 9781848320055
Издательство: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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ISBN-10: 1848320051
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 64
Вес: 0.35 кг.
Дата издания: 22.05.2008
Серия: Shipcraft
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 130 b/w & colour illustrations
Размер: 297 x 209 x 6
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 covers the famous German sister-ships whose fates were so very different - Bismarck had a short but glorious career, first sinking HMS Hood and then in turn being sunk by the Home Fleet, whereas the Tirpitz spent most of the war skulking in Norwegian fjords, fending off attacks by midget submarines and carrier aircraft before being finally sunk by enormous specially designed bombs dropped by RAF Lancasters.