by Foeth » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:12 am
Minireview after flipping through the book: if you are remotely interested in these ships, I'd say this is a volume well-worth its high price and it should have "buy on sight" status. If you have Bruce Taylors "HMS Hood" volume, you know what to expect from this book plus that this book is half an "Anatomy of a ship" series volume as well. You'll be sorry if this book runs out of print and you missed the boat. Many excellent pictures printed in high quality. A few camouflage scemes and detailed drawings are also given, plus numerous well-drawn 3D views and schematics of the ship including the differences between the individual units. As a modeling companion it succeeds admirably. Can't comment on the text. For the scratchbuilder, the smaller details are missing, so it's not really "Anatomy of the ship" material but well on its way. It misses too many drawings of the smaller boats and artillery pieces and so forth to quality as a single reference. But, I doubt that was the intention of the authors. Highly recommended
Minireview after flipping through the book: if you are remotely interested in these ships, I'd say this is a volume well-worth its high price and it should have "buy on sight" status. If you have Bruce Taylors "HMS Hood" volume, you know what to expect from this book plus that this book is half an "Anatomy of a ship" series volume as well. [u]You'll be sorry if this book runs out of print and you missed the boat[/u]. Many excellent pictures printed in high quality. A few camouflage scemes and detailed drawings are also given, plus [u]numerous[/u] well-drawn 3D views and schematics of the ship including the differences between the individual units. As a modeling companion it succeeds admirably. Can't comment on the text. For the scratchbuilder, the smaller details are missing, so it's not really "Anatomy of the ship" material but well on its way. It misses too many drawings of the smaller boats and artillery pieces and so forth to quality as a single reference. But, I doubt that was the intention of the authors. [u]Highly recommended[/u]