The Japanese Battleship Musashi (Super Drawings in 3D)

The 47th book in Kagero's Super Drawings in 3D series is devoted to the Japanese battleship Musashi, which along with her sister ship Yamato, was the largest, most powerfully armed battleship ever built. Despite its size the ship is covered in 84, 8-1/4" x 11-3/4" pages in a stapled card cover.The text covers parts of four pages, shared with a port and starboard profile and a deck view. The text is generally competent given the limited space available. The loss of the ship gets the most attention. There is a table of characteristics included.The meat of the book are the computer renderings which are outstanding as usual and are enough to award the book four stars alone. These are why the books are as popular as they are, whether one is a modeller or general enthusiast like myself. However, the book suffers from a common weakness in this series: inadequate captioning. I wish the authors and publisher could understand that at least some readers want to learn more about these ships and not just what they looked like at a given time (in the present case this would seem to be at her loss though this is not explicitly mentioned). An example of this is the unique boat and aircraft stowage hangers which go completely unremarked upon in the book. The ship is rendered with boats stored in the well on the stern which was intended to allow aircraft in the hanger to be brought on deck. Now it is entirely possible that the stern well was repurposed for boat stowage at some point; I'm not saying that this is a mistake. I just think the finer points of boat and aircraft stowage deserve some discussion in the text or captions. Another puzzling point is the lack of single 25mm guns. The text implies Musashi had many of these but none are shown.The book includes an unbound foldout with conventional 1:400 scale five view line drawings. There are line drawings of various fittings in larger scales.Recommended but far from the best source of information about this ship or the Yamato class in general.

A worthy addition to my library.The written English is fair but clearly not the writer's primary language.

Et bien maintenant j'ai 28 fascicules sur les navires de chez Kagero et à chaque fois je suis émerveillé. Quel travail et quelle minutie !. La puissance du Musashi est impressionnante et belle à la fois. Cette forteresse d'acier, la plus grosse du monde à l'époque avec son frère jumeau le Yamato est une prouesse technique impensable alors que le Japon était un pays féodal 75 ans plus tôt. Quel parcours et quelle ascension!. Yamamoto avait dit, semble-t-il: "les Égyptiens avaient les pyramides, les Chinois la Grande Muraille et les Japonais les Yamato". J'acheterai plus tard son frère, le Yamato si son prix baisse un peu.

ALL THE INFO I NEEDED. JUST PERFECT.