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Bounty: HM Armed Vessel 1787 (ShipCraft 30) by Kerry Jang is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Bounty: HM Armed Vessel 1787 (ShipCraft 30) about?
The ‘ShipCraft'series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warships. Previously, these have generally covered plastic and resin models of 20th century subjects but, like the previous volume on Nelson's Victory, this is a radical departure – not only a period sailing ship but one for which kits are available in many different materials and scales. This requires some changes to the standard approach, but the main features of the series remain constant. Bounty, a merchant vessel purchased to undertake a special mission to the South Pacific, will always be remembered for the drama of the mutiny against Captain Bligh and his epic open-boat voyage that followed. The events inspired many books, and at least three major movies, and make the ship one of the most popular of all ship modelling subjects. Despite the ship's fame, and the vast range of kits it has inspired, there are question marks over many aspects of the vessel's fitting and, especially, how it was painted. This volume tackles these questions, reconstructing convincing color schemes for the ship both as a merchant vessel and in naval service. The modelling section reviews the strength
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- Author
- Kerry Jang
- Publisher
- Seaforth Publishing
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781399022903
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Crafts & Hobbies, Engineering
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