Unsurprisingly the contents of that book are not available on the web .

I'm not buying a 30 dollar book on Revell .

Does it say on page 16 that they produced the kit of the Missouri that way because they didn't know better or is page 16 covering the transition from " full hull " to waterline offerings ?

If it's the later , why do you say that Revell didn't know what was below the waterline in 1953 ?

Where is your source for that ?