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Title: North American P-51 Mustang (Osprey Modelling Manuals 19) by Jerry Scutts ISBN: 1-84176-267-9 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Very frustrating
Comment: This is one of those books that will drive you crazy. This book is full of some very well done 1/48th models of the various marks of Mustangs. Typically, they are built straight from the box with the addition of aftermarket cockpit detail sets and, in one example, a full engine. What makes this book so frustrating is that the cockpits are so well done in the book, as are the beautiful metal finishes yet they don't give much instruction on how they were done. Since the models seem to have been built by several different modellers there are several different styles of cockpit detailing and painting and most every modeler has something that you will want to emulate on your own models. Too bad, because nothing in the text will tell you how to do it. For example, there is a cockpit in there that has a stunningly good natural wood cockpit floor achieved by paint alone. Think that they'll tell you how to do it? Nope, they don't. There is a cockpit frame that has a great shadowing detail done between the natural metal frame and the glass. Nothin in the text even mantions it, much less tells you how to do it. Subtle shading around a colorful paintjob on a tail or nose and again, nothing in the text even mentions it.
In effect, the title of this book is incorrect, this is not really a modelling manual since it gives very little instruction on how to actually improve your technique. What it is is a collection of photos of some very well painted models (interestingly, little to nothing is improved on the model outside of the cockpit, some gunbays, and the one engine so that poorly fitting parts are still poorly fitting, the panel under the nose being a prime example) that will hopefully inspire you but will lead to some real frustration as to how to learn the techniques used.
I wish that Osprey would re-release this book with some informative text so that we modellers could learn how to do these things.
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Title: Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Osprey Modelling Manuals 20) by Rodrigo Hernandez Cabos, Geoff Coughlin ISBN: 1841762687 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Messerschmitt Bf 109 (Osprey Modelling Manuals, 17) by Jerry Scutts ISBN: 1841762652 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Advanced Aviation Modelling: Compendium Modelling Manuals (Osprey Modelling Manuals) by Jerry Scutts ISBN: 1902579054 Publisher: Compendium Publishing & Communications Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: T-34/76 & T-34/85: Osprey Modelling Manual (Osprey Modelling Manual, 16) by Rodrigo Hernandez Cabos, John Prigent ISBN: 1841762091 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger (Osprey Modelling Manual, 13) by Rodrigo Hernandez Cabos ISBN: 1841762067 Publisher: Osprey Publishing (UK) Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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