Review of Super Drawings in 3D
Admiral Graf Spee, No. 16019
Authors: Stefan Draminski & Mirostaw Skwiot
Kagero Publications
ISBN: 978-83-62878-56-7
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $26.00
Kagero is a book publisher based in Lublin, Poland.
ISBN: 978-83-62878-56-7
By Ray Mehlberger
MSRP: $26.00
Kagero is a book publisher based in Lublin, Poland.
HISORY:
Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (originally termed Panzerschiff or armored ship, sometimes referred to as "pocket battleship") which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron that fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action, in World War I. She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in October 1932 and completed by January 1936. The ship was nominally under the 10,000 long tons (10,000 t) limitation on warship size imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, though with a full load displacement of 16,020 long tons (16,280 t), she significantly exceeded it. Armed with six 28 cm (11 in) guns in two triple gun turrets, Admiral Graf Spee and her sisters were designed to outgun any cruiser fast enough to catch them. Their top speed of 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) left only a handful of ships in the Anglo-French navies able to catch them and powerful enough to sink them.[1]
The ship conducted five non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in 1936–1938, and participated in the Coronation Review for King George VI in May 1937. Admiral Graf Spee was deployed to the South Atlantic in the weeks before the outbreak of World War II, to be positioned in merchant sea lanes once war was declared. Between September and December 1939, the ship sank nine ships totaling 50,089 gross register tons (GRT), before being confronted by three British cruisers at the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December. Admiral Graf Spee inflicted heavy damage on the British ships, but she too was damaged, and was forced to put into port at Montevideo. Convinced by false reports of superior British naval forces approaching his ship, Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the ship, ordered the vessel to be scuttled. The ship was partially broken up in situ, though part of the ship remains visible above the surface of the water.
This book Is soft-cover of 74 pages in 8 ¼” x 11 ¾” page format.
It contains 137 color illustrations of every inch of the Graf Spee done by Stefan Draminski. The text is by Miroslaw Skwiot. These color illustrations are in 3D and seen that way by looking through the cardboard goggles inserted in the book.
A large sheet in 26 ¾” x 18 3’4” is folded several times to fit inside the book. It has line drawings on both sides of it.
On one side is 1/350th scale drawings of the port and starboard sides, the bow and stern, and above view of the Graf Spee.
On the other side is drawings in 1/200th scale of the aircraft catapult, the Arado Ar-196A-1 float plane and the crane.
In 1/100th scale are drawings of the ship’s boats, 10.5 rangefinder a FuMO 22 radar, 100cm searchlight, 53.3 torpedo tubes, 15 cm L/55 C28 guns, SL-4 director, 10.5 cm L/65 C33 guns, 15 cm SK L/55 C28 guns.
In 1/50th scale are drawings of the 150 cm searchlight, 3 cm range finder, signal lamp, 2.0 cm L/65 C30 guns and 3,.7 cm L/83 C30 guns.
The last page of the book has color illustrations of the cover arts of other Kagero 3D books about ships
U.S.S. N. Carolina, Takao, U-boot VIIC, Aoba, Kongo, HMS Repulse, Scharnhorst, Varyag, Bismark, Prinz Eugen, HMS Queen Mary, Tone, Gneisenau, Haruna. U.S.S.. Iowa, Richelieu, U.S.S. Arizona.
This book will be of great interest to ship modelers and naval enthusiasts alike.
I want to thank Casemate Publishers and the folks at Kagero for this review sample
Casemate is the U.S. distributor of Kagero books.
Admiral Graf Spee was a Deutschland-class heavy cruiser (originally termed Panzerschiff or armored ship, sometimes referred to as "pocket battleship") which served with the Kriegsmarine of Nazi Germany during World War II. The vessel was named after Admiral Maximilian von Spee, commander of the East Asia Squadron that fought the battles of Coronel and the Falkland Islands, where he was killed in action, in World War I. She was laid down at the Reichsmarinewerft shipyard in Wilhelmshaven in October 1932 and completed by January 1936. The ship was nominally under the 10,000 long tons (10,000 t) limitation on warship size imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, though with a full load displacement of 16,020 long tons (16,280 t), she significantly exceeded it. Armed with six 28 cm (11 in) guns in two triple gun turrets, Admiral Graf Spee and her sisters were designed to outgun any cruiser fast enough to catch them. Their top speed of 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph) left only a handful of ships in the Anglo-French navies able to catch them and powerful enough to sink them.[1]
The ship conducted five non-intervention patrols during the Spanish Civil War in 1936–1938, and participated in the Coronation Review for King George VI in May 1937. Admiral Graf Spee was deployed to the South Atlantic in the weeks before the outbreak of World War II, to be positioned in merchant sea lanes once war was declared. Between September and December 1939, the ship sank nine ships totaling 50,089 gross register tons (GRT), before being confronted by three British cruisers at the Battle of the River Plate on 13 December. Admiral Graf Spee inflicted heavy damage on the British ships, but she too was damaged, and was forced to put into port at Montevideo. Convinced by false reports of superior British naval forces approaching his ship, Hans Langsdorff, the commander of the ship, ordered the vessel to be scuttled. The ship was partially broken up in situ, though part of the ship remains visible above the surface of the water.
This book Is soft-cover of 74 pages in 8 ¼” x 11 ¾” page format.
It contains 137 color illustrations of every inch of the Graf Spee done by Stefan Draminski. The text is by Miroslaw Skwiot. These color illustrations are in 3D and seen that way by looking through the cardboard goggles inserted in the book.
A large sheet in 26 ¾” x 18 3’4” is folded several times to fit inside the book. It has line drawings on both sides of it.
On one side is 1/350th scale drawings of the port and starboard sides, the bow and stern, and above view of the Graf Spee.
On the other side is drawings in 1/200th scale of the aircraft catapult, the Arado Ar-196A-1 float plane and the crane.
In 1/100th scale are drawings of the ship’s boats, 10.5 rangefinder a FuMO 22 radar, 100cm searchlight, 53.3 torpedo tubes, 15 cm L/55 C28 guns, SL-4 director, 10.5 cm L/65 C33 guns, 15 cm SK L/55 C28 guns.
In 1/50th scale are drawings of the 150 cm searchlight, 3 cm range finder, signal lamp, 2.0 cm L/65 C30 guns and 3,.7 cm L/83 C30 guns.
The last page of the book has color illustrations of the cover arts of other Kagero 3D books about ships
U.S.S. N. Carolina, Takao, U-boot VIIC, Aoba, Kongo, HMS Repulse, Scharnhorst, Varyag, Bismark, Prinz Eugen, HMS Queen Mary, Tone, Gneisenau, Haruna. U.S.S.. Iowa, Richelieu, U.S.S. Arizona.
This book will be of great interest to ship modelers and naval enthusiasts alike.
I want to thank Casemate Publishers and the folks at Kagero for this review sample
Casemate is the U.S. distributor of Kagero books.