by Laurence Batchelor » Wed Nov 09, 2005 12:42 pm
As I expected the author talks plenty about the Royal Navy and the naval limitation conference in general, but doesnt cover in the same depth the other navies warships programs and difficulties they had to overcome.
Don't get me wrong he still covers all the major classes of warships for each country but he skims over the other nations probably beacuse he's british and he knows most about this country's policies.
In terms of plans there isnt any detailed ones, there is a few line drawings of the ships in profile but they are so small they lack detail and they are rather sporadic i.e. one for each class at least would have helped!.
Photograph wise there are a reasonable amount, but nothing you have not seen before elsewhere. As the book is only A5 in size they are usually half page at best and mostely are taken in peacetime.
Also one thing I noticed is a general trend in warship books nowadays, the author tries to use no photographs from the Imperial War Museum, obviously beacuse they charge stupid amounts for reproduction rights. Which is kind of a shame as they hold all the official MOD stuff as well as many rare donated shots and in my opinion this book would have been better if he actually showed you how the County class, for example, was upgraded via photographs showing how the treaty limitations of 10,000tons were a serve obstacle to producing a balanced warship design.
Most of the important detail to us modellers is thus only in text format in this book and as you have probably read above this book seriously needed proper proof reading!
Regards
Laurence
As I expected the author talks plenty about the Royal Navy and the naval limitation conference in general, but doesnt cover in the same depth the other navies warships programs and difficulties they had to overcome.
Don't get me wrong he still covers all the major classes of warships for each country but he skims over the other nations probably beacuse he's british and he knows most about this country's policies.
In terms of plans there isnt any detailed ones, there is a few line drawings of the ships in profile but they are so small they lack detail and they are rather sporadic i.e. one for each class at least would have helped!.
Photograph wise there are a reasonable amount, but nothing you have not seen before elsewhere. As the book is only A5 in size they are usually half page at best and mostely are taken in peacetime.
Also one thing I noticed is a general trend in warship books nowadays, the author tries to use no photographs from the Imperial War Museum, obviously beacuse they charge stupid amounts for reproduction rights. Which is kind of a shame as they hold all the official MOD stuff as well as many rare donated shots and in my opinion this book would have been better if he actually showed you how the County class, for example, was upgraded via photographs showing how the treaty limitations of 10,000tons were a serve obstacle to producing a balanced warship design.
Most of the important detail to us modellers is thus only in text format in this book and as you have probably read above this book seriously needed proper proof reading!
Regards
Laurence