British Escort Destroyers of the Second World War [Paperback]

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, highlighting differences between ships 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 subjects, 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 many variations of Royal Navy wartime escort destroyers, both the purpose-built Hunt class and the conversions from older fleet destroyers. The Hunts were built in four groups (Types I to IV), while the old V&W classes were modified to Long Range Escort, Short Range Escort and Wair (anti-aircraft) variants. Also included are the fifty ex-US flush-deckers that became the Town class.With its unparalleled level of visual information  paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs  this book is simply the best reference for any model maker setting out to build any of these numerous escort types.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, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers.Summary of the historical backgroundFull details of types, variations and modificationscolor reference for paint schemesGallery of photographs of outstanding modelsCritical reviews of available kitsSources o