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| October 2011: New book from Classic Warships Publishing |
| Warship Pictorial #37 RM Roma |
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Warship Pictorial #37 RM Roma
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| Retail price: $18.00 |
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| August 2011: New Calendars from Classic Warships Publishing | ||
| 2012 Calendars: 100% Color WWII Photographs | ||
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2012 Calendars: US Navy Warships of WWII & US Navy Aircraft of WWII
Our 2012 Calendars are the follow up to last year's first of their kind calendars, with 100% historic color photos from WWII. These calendars look great on any wall and are great conversation starters. Give your history buff or veteran one of the best gifts they'll receive all year, a 2012 Calendar from Classic Warships Publishing. |
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| Retail price: Calendars: $12.00 | ||
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| May 2011: New book from Classic Warships Publishing |
| Warship Pictorial #36 Kriegsmarine Scharnhorst |
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Warship Pictorial #36 Kriegsmarine Scharnhorst
72 pages Includes rarely seen photos, close up shots, and color images of this German vessel. Careful research went into this book, as it does with every Classic Warships publication. This Warship Pictorial also features plenty of images of equipment and gear. |
| Retail price: $18.00 |
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| May 2011: New Shipcraft book from Classic Warships Publishing |
| Shipcraft Special - Grand Fleet Battlecruisers |
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| Shipcraft Special - Grand Fleet Battlecruisers by Steve Backer
128 pages, 64 in color. This book covers 15 battlecruisers of the British Royal Navy that saw action during the First World War period. The book covers their development, history, fitment and fates in the historical section of this book. This portion also contains photos and drawings of all of the ships covered. The model section of the book covers the model kits and accessories available, as well as an extensive model gallery that is superb. For anyone interested in the topic of the battlecruisers of the RN from the First World War period, wether in their history, images, or as a model builder, this book really gives one more than has ever been offered previously. Our 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 class, highlighting differences between sister-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 modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic survey 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. |
| Retail price: $42.00 |
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| April 2011: New Series To Be Released Later This Year |
| Military Pictorial: #1 Wehrmacht |
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| September 2010: New Shipcraft book from Classic Warships Publishing |
| Shipcraft Special - Allied Torpedo Boats |
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Shipcraft Special - Allied Torpedo Boats
128 pages This book concentrates on the types used in the greatest numbers - Vosper 'short' MTBs in the RN and Elco PT Boats in the USN and the principal variants - but there is also coverage of designs by other builders, and a few experimental craft. Dive in to the detail of torpedo boats, and the weapons and equipment they carried with this double-length Shipcraft Special. Our 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 class, highlighting differences between sister-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 modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic survey 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. |
| Retail price: $40.00 |
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| August 2010: New from Classic Warships Publishing | ||
| 2011 Calendars: 100% Color WWII Photographs | ||
| Warship Pictorials #33, 34 & 35 | ||
| Aircraft Pictorials #3 | ||
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| 2011 Calendar | 2011 Calendar | Aircraft Pictorials # 3 |
| US Navy Warships of WWII | US Navy Floatplanes of WWII | OS2U Kingfisher |
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| Warship Pictorials # 33 | Warship Pictorials # 34 | Warship Pictorials # 35 |
| USS Lexington CV-2 | USN Battleships in Color | Ticonderoga Class Cruisers |
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| Classic Warships Publishing debuted four new books and two calendars at this year's International Plastic Modeler's Society National Convention.
2011 Calendars: US Navy Warships of WWII & US Navy Floatplanes of WWII Our 2011 Calendars are the first of their kind with 100% historic color photos from WWII. These calendars look great on any wall and are great conversation starters. Give your history buff or veteran one of the best gifts they'll receive all year, a 2011 Calendar from Classic Warships Publishing. Aircraft Pictorials # 3 OS2U Kingfisher Includes dozens of high resolution photos, drawings and illustrations of the Kingfisher from the manufacturer and in operation. 72 pages, with 71 B&W, and 8 color photos. Warship Pictorials # 33 USS Lexington CV-2 Get ready for an in-depth look at the USS Lexington including drawings and never before seen photos. CV-2 went through a number of changes from 1937-1942, all of which are fully detailed in this new book. 72 pages, with 70 B&W photos, color cover photos. Warship Pictorials # 34 USN Battleships in Color If you're going to buy just one book on classic US Navy battleships, this should be it. This book will have you experiencing the 1940's like never before, in full color. Features many unpublished photos. 72 pages - 100% color, with 100 color images of US Navy Battleships. Warship Pictorials # 35 Ticonderoga Class Cruisers This book covers the Tico cruisers through the years, including their different variations and technological upgrades. 72 pages, with 136 B&W, and 20 color photos. |
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| Retail prices: Calendars: $12.00 | Warship Pictorials $18.00 or $24.00 | Aircraft Pictorial $18.00 | ||
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| June 2010: New Shipcraft books from Classic Warships Publishing |
| Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships & Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers |
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| Our 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 class, highlighting differences between sister-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 modelling section reviews the strengths and weaknesses of available kits, lists commercial accessory sets for super-detailing of the ships, and provides hints on modifying and improving the basic kit. This is followed by an extensive photographic survey 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. Shipcraft #15 Queen Elizabeth Class Battleships The five ships of the highly successful Queen Elizabeth class, a design of fast battleship that set the benchmark for the last generation of dreadnoughts. Although they fought with distinction in WW1, all were thought valuable enough to be modernised between the wars - indeed, three were massively reconstructed, providing the modelmaker with a challenging variety of possible subjects. 64 pages. Shipcraft #16 Admiral Hipper Class Cruisers The five ships of the largest and most sophisticated German cruiser class of WWII, suffered very different fates. Blucher was sunk during the invasion of Norway in 1940, whereas Admiral Hipper fought right through the war. The most famous, Prinz Eugen, escaped when Bismarck was sunk and survived to be expended in a postwar Atomic bomb test. Seydlitz was intended to be converted to an aircraft carrier, but never finished, while Lutzow was sold to Russia and sunk by her erstwhile owners. 64 pages. |
| Retail price: $24.00 each |
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| December 2009: New book from Classic Warships Publishing |
| Aircraft Pictorial #2 SB2U Vindicator |
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| The second book in our new series, authored by famed aircraft historian Dan Bell, is a dedicated look at the US Navy dive bomber from the pre-war and early WWII period. All aspects of this aircraft are covered in a 72 page format, 8 of which are full color. Included are numerous photographs of overall views, all exterior details, cockpit interiors, line drawings, color photographs, and color illustrations. Extensive research is presented within the body of text, as well as informative captions which accompany each photograph and the illustrations. This book offers many previously unknown details and corrections to past information in one of, if not the most extensive look at this aircraft type. This publication, as well as this new series of dedicated aircraft pictorials, will become a highly sought after reference for both the aircraft modeler and enthusiast. |
| Retail price: $18.00 |
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| September 2009: New book from Classic Warships Publishing |
| Warship Pictorial #32 South Dakota Class Battleships |
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| This book covers the United States Navy Second World War era battleships of the SOUTH DAKOTA class. These battleships were the result of the evolution of all previous designs in the US Navy and were the second group of the Fast Battleships in the Atlantic and Pacific Wars, against both Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire . When commissioned, these warships, USS SOUTH DAKOTA BB-57, INDIANA BB-57, MASSACHUSETTS BB-59 and ALABAMA BB-60 were some of the most powerful in the world. Covered in this book are all changes, refits and overhauls these ships went through, showing numerous details and differences from 1941 to the end of the war. Extensive and informative captions help explain each and every one of the multitude of photographs, many previously unpublished, of this class of famous US Navy WWII battleships, as well a page of general statistics. 72 pages, 114 B&W and 14 color photos. |
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