This book is one of a series that aims to provide modellers with all they need to know about a famous class of warship and associated model kits. This newly updated volume covers the Royal Navy's last three battlecruisers, Hood, Repulse and Renown, ships of the First World War era which survived to fight in the Second. Still the fastest capital ships in the world in 1939, their protection was not up to contemporary standards and two were famously lost in action, Hood in an old fashioned gunnery duel, but Repulse became the first capital ship to be sunk at sea by air attack. The one modernised ship, Renown, survived an adventurous wartime career. This edition has been revised to cover new kits and accessories released since the first publication of this book in 2007 and also includes new models built from these kits in Modelmakers' Showcase. AUTHORS: Steve Backer is the editor of steelnavy.com, the best warship modelling site on the web, for which he writes extensively on warship kits and accessories. He is also the author of two previous volumes in this series, on Japanese Heavy Cruisers and British Battlecruisers. Les Brown is a leading light in the Small Warships Group of the IPMS and the editor of their newsletter. He is the author of a number of titles in the ShipCraft series, including two on British destroyers, and, with John Lambert, he produced two larger works, one on 'Flower' class corvettes and another on Allied torpedo boats. He also wrote the volume on Black Swan Class Sloops in Seaforth's 'Original Builders' Plans' series. 130 colour & b/w photographs and line drawings