Philip Reed, best known for his superb models of ships from the age of sail, here turns his attention to the other highly popular subject for ship modelers - the warships of the Second World War. The book is a step-by-step manual for building a scratch waterline model of the Ca Class destroyer HMS Caesar, the sistership of Cavalier now on display in drydock at Chatham Historical Dockyard. These emergency built ships were launched between 1943 and 1945 and Caesar herself was to see action in 1944 on the Russian convoys and then in defense of the Western Approaches. The model presented in the book is built to the scale of 16ft to the inch and is designed to be displayed as a waterline model in a diorama. Every aspect is covered from the construction of a bread and butter hull through to the the details of camouflage, bridge, funnel, mast, the 4.5in, Hazemeyer and Oerlikon guns, boats, davits, depth charge gear, torpedo tubes, searchlights, vents and lockers,and the sea itself. Ship’s plans and a picture gallery at the end of the book devoted to a whole array of the author’s WWII model warships complete the book. More than fifty years of modeling experience is passed on through wise and practical advice and thus each page will be of the utmost value to scratch builders and to any kit builders who may be setting out to construct a model of a WWII warship.

A comprehensive introduction and step-by-step guide to the art of ship modeling, this volume contains complete plans for the construction of forty of the most celebrated warships of the twentieth century. The author includes sections on project planning and research, construction techniques, detailed instructions on the building of turrets and pom-poms, the use of various modeling tools, helpful tips on the variety and application of paints, and methods of displaying completed models. The featured plans include the Dreadnought, North Carolina, Yamato, Gneisenau, Enterprise (US), Guiseppe Garibaldi, Emden, Shimakaze, Volta, Vittorio Veneto, Eritrea, Allen M. Sumner, Glorious, Vincennes, Black Prince, Renown (1939), and Hood. The warship plans are a full-size 1/1200 scale with photographs, building specifications, and the history of each vessel.

A guide to naval waterline shipmodelling in 1/1200 scale.

Just as the U.S. Air Force sends obsolete warbirds to the Arizona desert for storage and disassembly, the U.S. Navy maintains a number of harbors for its obsolete vessels. This collection gives enthusiasts an admiral's tour of the naval storage harbors in Philadelphia, Norfolk, Pearl Harbor, and Bremerton, Washington, as well as the once-proud fighting vessels awaiting reassignment, sale, or the cutting torch. Author Kermit Bonner takes readers through the entire disassembly process from start to finish, describing in detail how these surplus cruisers, submarines, destroyers, and aircraft carriers are scrapped, including more complex processes involving nuclear submarines.