The Battleship Roma 1942-1943 (Super Drawings in 3D)

Battleship Roma was one of the three Italian Littorio class battleships operating during the Second World War. She was one of the most modern and powerful battleships of her times. The construction of Roma and her sister Impero, the fourth battleship never finished, was planned to strengthen the Italian Navy which, until then, had only two modern battleships and some old WWI battleships.

Battleship Roma was laid down by the Italian shipbuilder “Cantieri Riuniti dell’Adriatico”, in Trieste, on 18 September 1938, almost four year after the first two battleships (Vittorio Veneto and Littorio) of her class. She was launched on 9 June 1940, the day before Italy entered the war, and was commissioned into “Regia Marina” (the Italian Navy) on 14 June 1942. Based on experience of the first two ships, some small improvements were made to her, including additional freeboard to the bow.

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filled with Kagero's marvellous full colour 3D drawings of detailed elements of the ship. Every part of the vessel is covered, both main and secondary armament, the ships' boats, bridge structure, aircraft catapult, bow with its' colourful red and white stripes for air recognition it is excellent. Near the end of the book, a couple of pages include some cutaway images showing the gun turret and magazines down through the decks, and the many levels of a main gun turret. Being all in colour, this provides what I think is the perfect reference for anyone building the Trumpeter kit of the Roma in 1/350 scale. Talking of scale, tucked into the book is a separate fold-out sheet with 1/350 scale drawings of the vessel, again very useful for any modeller, whether you want to do the plastic kit or maybe even scratchbuild your own. Another excellent addition to this series.
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