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County Class Cruisers Kindle Edition

by Les Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
“A detailed look at British 10,000-ton Treaty Cruisers. “A gem of research by the author, covering the design and progressive improvements to each ship.”—Malcolm Wright, author of British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII
 
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 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 British 10,000-ton Treaty Cruisers, thirteen of which were built to three slightly varying designs between the wars. With three funnels and a high freeboard, they were impressive ships, and all enjoyed very active wartime careers—three were involved in the Bismarck action and another with the sinking of the Scharnhorst.
 
“This book by Les Brown is rather like the Sci-Fi ‘Tardis’ in that its outside belies the tremendous amount on the inside.”—Malcolm Wright, author of British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII
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    December 5, 2011
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Les Brown is an author and maritime historian.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ME3JQHY
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Seaforth Publishing (December 5, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 5, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 28.4 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 293 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 37 ratings

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  • Geir J.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, but can hardly be considered an in ...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2015
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    Great book, but can hardly be considered an in depth review in the traditional sense, but contains the most appropriate information. But this book is of great value for model builder and providing the more than just basic information about the class. Great color side views drawings of the cruisers. I would definitely recommend this book for those who don't have the need to know how many rivets were used etc :-)
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great reference
    Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2019
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    Very useful treatment of this important class of RN and RAN cruisers. Indispensable to the modeler. I love these books.
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  • Keith Bickel
    4.0 out of 5 stars A lot of bang for not too many bucks.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2017
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    Period photos, a fairly complete basic history of these 13 ships in 3 subclasses, a listing & pictures of most available models & accessories, color profiles, & more is what you get on 64 pages of stout glossy paper. Not being much of a ship modeler, I can still appreciate the work involved as well as the very nicely done finished products shown here.
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  • K.Schneider
    5.0 out of 5 stars County Class Crusiers
    Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011
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    Les Brown has producted another great book on a single class of ship...The County Class Crusiers built under the Washington Treaty is an excellent book there is alot of photo's tech and drawings packed into 64 pages....

    For the model maker it is perfect...for the naval historian and excellent referance...
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  • John M. Hodgson
    5.0 out of 5 stars High quality.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2019
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    Precisely presented.
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  • Richard C. Vaughan
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good book but a little dated.
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2020
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    It would be nice if these ShipCraft books were updated every 5-6 years or so.
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  • carbinemike
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2015
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    Love the camo schemes and line drawings. Would have liked to seen drawings on the Aus. crusiers
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  • kai reinholz
    5.0 out of 5 stars sehr interessant
    Reviewed in Germany on February 3, 2019
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    nicht nur für Modellbauer sehr informativ.
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  • 艦船モデラー
    5.0 out of 5 stars 英国１万トン級重巡洋艦の参考書
    Reviewed in Japan on February 10, 2017
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    日本海軍の高雄型、妙高型に対抗する、所謂英国1万トン級重巡洋艦群を模型製作の紹介したものです。このため、ヨーク級重巡は含まれてはいません。本書の魅力は、日本ではなじみのない英国1万トン級重巡を、１／３０００から大型艦船模型までの商品化、製作模型の紹介をはじめとして、実艦の写真、カモフラージュ図など、英文を読めなくてもヴィジュアルで模型製作の参考書となっている点です。舷側・平面図として大戦前のケントと大改装後のロンドンが入っています。しかし、模型製作にとっては、写真資料の方が重要であり、掲載されている写真は、日本で発行される英国重巡関連の書物に掲載されているものより数が多く、非常に興味深いものがあって、各艦の相違点や年代ごとの変遷を把握するのに参考になります。
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  • Clipper 314
    5.0 out of 5 stars excellent reference
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 29, 2012
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    Having used the excellent Shipcraft Special on Corvettes for my 6 month build of HMCS Snowberry I was keen to see what others in the series would offer re better references/alternatives for the Airfix Suffolk. Not at all disappointed as the overall style and content is excellent for a number of County cruisers, and not only fills a gap in my knowledge but gives good references for the different paint schemes used, mostly both port & starboard views. Particularly the China Station colour schemes helped work out what I always thought were errors in the Airfix instructions for the Suffolk. Very good text and excellent material to work from. I was particularly delighted to find info re the 1200 scale Eaglewall kits of the Dorsetshire and Norfolk as my brother had these in the dim and distant past, (1960's), and I had been trying to recall who the manufacturer was. Heartily recommend the book as informative and excellent for modelling reference purposes. Well written and superb drawings/photos throughout. Top notch and inspiring !
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  • Mob
    5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2022
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    Very useful
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  • Gardner
    5.0 out of 5 stars Shipcraft 19 - County Class Cruisers
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2013
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    Clear text and interesting history of the class with good selection of photographs of the actual ships, and modellers' representations of them. All in all, an invaluable resource for the active and armchair model-builder.
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