Author: Chesneau, Roger
Publisher: Chatham Publishing
Year: 2006
ISBN: 1861762216
Binding: Soft Cover
Book Condition: As New
Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Description:
New book, 64 pages. This is the latest in the Shipcraft series, which aims to provide modellers with all they need to know about a famous class of warship and associated model kits. This volume is devoted to the largest and most powerful cruises of their era, the Imperial Japanese Navy's Myoko class and the succeeding Takao class. Superior in armament, armour and speed to any Allied 'Treaty Cruiser', they were actually well over thier publicly declared displacement and even exceeded the official design tonnage. Despite being over-weight, they were sublject to many modifications and additions, and played a major part in almost every major part in almost every major campaign of the Pacific War. With an unparalleled level of visual information - paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs - this book is simply the best all-round reference for any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous cruisers.