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Grendel: Shipcraft here:

http://www.barbarossabooks.eu/shipcraft-no-11-british-destroyers-ai-and-tribal-classes-p-7051.html

And here: talk to Randy or Cindy

http://www.shipcamouflage.com/shipcraft.htm

Peppe, thanks for the info on the site.
Rare for me some images of HMS Aldenham and Laforey with camouflage.

http://www.world-war.co.uk/destroyers.php3
some nice image
it is also a polish card model 1:200 of hms matabele (modelart 3/2010).
ciao peppe

Thanks Jimmy, think that covers it pretty well. The 'Shipcraft' book looks like a good choice, too bad their website is 30 years old! Hopefully I can find some other place to order it if I come up empty locally.

Grendel, don't know any monograph in 3D about Tribals.

The books I can point:

-Tribals and Battle class by Vince Fazio,

http://smmlonline.com/reviews/books/tribal_battle.htm

-Profile Morskie 016 Tribal class, with plans.
-Tribal Class Destroyers, by Peter Hodges.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tribal-Class-Destroyers-Peter-Hodges/dp/0855240474

- Shipcraft series on Tribals n11.

(The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, then moves to an extensive photographic survey of either a high-quality model or a surviving example of the ship. Hints on building the model, and on modifying and improving the basic kit, are followed by a section on paint schemes and camouflage, featuring numerous colour profiles and highly-detailed line drawings. The strengths and weaknesses of available kits of the ships are reviewed, and the book concludes with a section on research references - books, monographs, large-scale plans and relevant websites.This new volume deals with the classes which represent the whole inter-war development of British destroyers, from the prototypes Amazon and Ambuscade of 1926 - the first new post World War I design - to the powerful and radically different 'Tribal' class a decade later. These ships formed the backbone of Royal Navy destroyer flotillas in the Second World War.)

http://www.classicwarships.com/shipcraft/shipcraft.html

-some russian book: Modelist Konstr�uktor - Morskay�a Collekchiy 20�02-01 - 'Tribal�' Class Destroy�ers ( it has some drawings of HMS Eskimo in 1939 ) with photos of ships of the class.

- "HMS Cossack / Tribal Class Destroyer (Warship Profile 2)" :
The cover:

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Make your comments please. Hope it helps.

Best: Jimmy

Looking for something similar to the Kagero 3D books, don't really need any history just a detailed look at the ship, especially the rigging. Hopefully something not too expensive and available.