Japanese Battleships: Fuso & Ise Classes (ShipCraft)

This book is an excellent resource with all sorts of pictures up close details of these particular Japanese battleships for all modeling and all scales

We are not blessed unfortunatly to have many photos of japanese warships so many of the photos in this book may be familliar, for this reason I try not to get too many books on the IJN. However the text and line drawings are well done.

Period photos, a fairly complete basic history of the ships, a listing & pictures of most available models & accessories, color profiles, & more is what you get on 64 pages of stout glossy paper. Not being much of a ship modeler, I can still appreciate the work involved as well as the very nicely done finished products shown here. A lot of bang for not too many bucks.Good basic coverage of the 4 slow battleships in these 2 classes, Fuso, Yamashiro,Ise, & Hyuga from the early post WW1 era through their reconstructions & alterations up until 1945 including the rather useless carrier/battleship conversions of Ise & Hyuga in 1943..

If you are familiar with the ShipCraft series, this will tell you what you already know. Superb photos of outstanding replicas of these important ships, a short history, camouflage drawing and more are packed into this book. Prior to reading it, I really had no idea about these ships beyond their fantastic looking "pagoda" super structures. Now I am informed as to the differences, similarities, history, and model making possibilities for all four of them. Well done, as usual.

If you want to build any of the current kits on the market , then this is the book for you.

Nicely done but could use more updated kit reviews.

Seaforth books rock. Very pleased with the format and content. Great for modellers.

Excellent, designed specifically for model makers.

I am a great fan of this series of books as they are very detailed and informative.

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Very nice book as the rest of this superb collection.

Superb book as always

Another fine offering from shipcraft. Lots of useful information and photos.