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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Japanese Battleships: Fuso & Ise Classes

Japanese Battleships: Fuso & Ise Classes

Brown, Robert

Paperback

Series: Ship Craft, Book 24

Toys & ModelsJapanese HistoryNaval History

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1473883377
ISBN13: 9781473883376
Publisher: Seaforth Publishing
Published: Apr 14 2017
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.30 Width: 8.20 Depth: 11.60
Language: English
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 sisterships 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 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 relevant websites.

This volume covers the two related classes of Japanese 14in-gunned battleships, originally built during the First World War but subsequently totally reconstructed. They are famous for the towering forward superstructure, usually described as a pagoda bridge, that they featured when rebuilt. Ise and Hyuga underwent further reconstruction during the Second World War to emerge as a unique hybrid of battleship and aircraft carrier in a desperate attempt to compensate for fleet carriers sunk earlier in the war.

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