I've been chipping away at Norman Friedman's
The British Submarine in Two World Wars. It's one of his better books from the last decade, although it does require a lot of patience and careful reading. It has a lot of excellent plans from John Lambert and from the archive of the National Maritime Museum, including some foldout color Admiralty draughts. Just be sure to have a magnifying glass!
Moving away from anything maritime related (although you could make a strong case that the
Nostromo is a giant tugboat...)I also recently finished J.W. Rinzler's
The Making of Alien. It's a big coffee-table style account with stories from seemingly everyone involved in the production, packed with concept art, candid on-set photographs, storyboards, set blueprints, etc. Awesome book if you're a fan of the movie. You can read my review (with photos) of it here:
https://www.amazon.com/review/R19VRP...p_perm?ie=UTF8