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Eaglewall's Table Top Navy
The first in depth study of the Eagle 1:1200 scale plastic model warships produced by Eaglewall Plastics, LTD, Eaglewall's Table Top Navy explores the birth, growth, and death of the legendary model company. The book covers the history of the company, the tie-in with the Eagle magazine, related producers such as the American company Pyro, and probes the mysterious fate of the Eagle molds. The detailed lists of models produced and variations are essential to any Eaglewall collector. This hard cover book is illustrated with over 100 full color images with example of Eagle artwork, advertisements, completed kits, and kit parts.
Miniature Ship Models
This book is the first comprehensive history of how the 1:1200 scale and its 1:1250 continental equivalent became accepted as the modern standard for miniature ship models. The origins can be traced back to the first years of the twentieth century and their use as identification aids by the military during the First World War, but when peace came the manufacturers aimed their increasingly sophisticated products at collectors, and acquiring, modifying or scratch-building miniature ship models has been an avidly pursued hobby ever since. This book charts the commercial rise and fall of the manufacturers, and the advancing technology that produces ever more detailed and accurate replicas. The a...
Naval Camouflage 1914-1945
Although it is a subject of immense importance to warship enthusiasts, modelmakers, photograph collectors, and indeed academic naval historians, there has never been an authoritative history of camouflage. Apart from the huge scale of the subject, the reason for this lies largely in the fragmented nature of the surviving evidence, and the ad hoc nature of much wartime development. This book does not claim to be such a narrative history, but it does set out to provide a comprehensive study. Visual and illustrative in its approach, it is Anglo-American in emphasis, but the camouflage patterns of enemy navies (and selected neutrals) are covered as well.
Miniature Merchant Ships
This practical guide to waterline ship modelling in 1/1200 scale contains 30 sets of plans for the reader to construct their own models.
