ShipCraft 36: Akagi & Kaga by Kerry Jang

ShipCraft 36: Akagi & Kaga by Kerry Jang

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, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. This includes paint schemes and camouflage, featuring colour profiles and highly detailed line drawings and scale plans. The modelling 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 two largest carriers of the inter-war Imperial Japanese Navy, the ships that spearheaded the attack on Pearl Harbor and led the highly successful carrier operations that followed, before both were sunk in June 1942 at Midway, the battle that turned the tide of the Pacific War. Both were pioneering designs, built on the hulls of unfinished capital ships suspended under the terms of the Washington Treaty, and therefore subjected to significant and almost-continuous modification during the 1930s as aircraft characteristics became more demanding. The many alterations to both ships are covered in detail in this volume.With its unparalleled level of visual information - paint schemes, models, line drawings and photographs - this book is simply the best reference for any modelmaker setting out to build either of these iconic carriers.

KERRY JANG has recently retired after an academic career at a Canadian university and is now free to pursue his long-time interest in ship modelling. For Seaforth he has previously published a number of books in this field, most recently Sailing Ships from Plastic Kits, as well as the ShipCraft period ship volumes on Victory and Bounty and USS Constitution.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781036146627
ISBN 10	1036146626
Title	ShipCraft 36: Akagi & Kaga
Author	Kerry Jang
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Seaforth Publishing
Year published	2026-07-28
Number of pages	64
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.