John Lambert, Les Brown
Price: £16.99
The ShipCraft series provides modellers with all they need to know about a famous class of warship and associated model kits. This special has twice the extent of the standard volumes in order to give better coverage of a class that was built in large numbers and in many variations.
The "Flower" class was originally conceived as a simple coastal escort that could be constructed by shipyards with little or no naval experience, but such was the shortage of ocean escorts that they became major players in the Battle of the Atlantic, as so famously depicted in the book and film of the Cruel Sea. Subject to continious upgrading , hardly two of them were identical - besides the major differences between British and Canadian-built ships - and they eventually evolved into a far more potent "Modified Flower" class.
With its large number of detailed plans and photographs of ships, fittings, weapons and equipment, this book offers an unparalled level of visual information, including many paint schemes and completed models in full colour. For any modelmaker setting out to build one of these famous ships, it is simply the best referance available. 128 pages p/b