Modelling Manuals – serie

This book concentrates on how to model accurately not just postwar technical developments but also changing tactical uses.After its successful development in the crucible of World War II, the tank had come of age. Since World War II, tanks have proved themselves in every conflict, including Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the Gulf, and the Arab-Israeli wars. The vehicles covered in this volume are those of the 1950s and 1960s – the Russian vehicles used to such effect all over the world by Communist regimes, the T-34/85, the T-54 and T-62. The post war U.S. Army is covered in the shape of the M60 and M61A1RISE main battle tank and unusual M551 Sheridan with its 152mm Shillelagh rocket launcher/gun main armament. Emphasising the importance of mobile artillery are the US M41 and M43 howitzer motor carriages. The armoured fighting vehicles in this book provide much scope for the modeller and the tips and pointers provided will help in super detailing, painting and achieving a top level of realism.

While tanks and armoured cars have the edge for excitement, there's no doubting the fact that soft skinned military vehicles are essential for most dioramas. The trouble is that they tend to be more difficult to model than a tank. They tend to have lots of bits of kit, personal weapons and clothing, complicated awnings and windshields, and often a number of figures. It is important therefore to be able to model them well and that is where the eleventh of Osprey’s Modelling Manuals comes in. It provides expert advice, professional tips and pointers and detailed technical knowledge to help with model-making, scratch-building, superdetailing and, in particular, painting these tricky vehicles.

The beauty of modelling post-World War 2 aircraft can be summed up simply: jets, helicopters and missiles. Unlike World War 2 where almost everything was prop-driven, the post-war years are the years of the jet. In the post war years the jet has developed into a superlative power source enabling post-war designers to go to places barely imaginable in 1945. Attack helicopters, V/STOL (vertical/short take-off), variable geometry wings – and what weaponry. Modern aircraft are always groaning under a fascinating array of pods and dispensers – heat seeking Sidewinders, anti-radar HARMs, ECM and ESM pods, anti-tank missiles, gun pods and drop tanks. The twelfth in Osprey's Modeling Manual series looks at the attention to detail required to model today's jet aircraft realistically, from Harrier to Hornet, ‘Frogfoot’ to ‘Flanker B’.

With numbers 13 and 14 the Osprey Modelling Series sees the start of a regular subseries on modelling specific AFVs.The second covers the Allies' most important tank of WW2, the US M4 Sherman, of which 49, 234 gun tanks were built. With detailed step-by-step model photography, specially commissioned walkround photography, scale drawings and wartime shots, these books provide all the details needed to model the main M4 Sherman version – the M4A4 – and its variants.There is a full roundup of the models available on the market, details of where you can see the real thing, a select bibliography, and survey of websites of interest.

The Panzer III was the instrument of Blitzkrieg on land, the major component of the Panzerwaffe in the early war years, and an important stepping stone between the earliest Panzers and the heavier vehicles of the later war years.Over 15,000 were built and the Panzerkampfwagen III saw service in all theatres, serving with distinction in Africa and Russia. With detailed step-by-step model photography, specially commissioned walkround photography, scale drawings and wartime shots, this book provides all the details needed to model the main Panzer III version – the Ausf J – and its variants.

A detailed guide to modelling two significant designs of tank.The T-34/76 was a major step forward in tank design and its appearance on the battlefield during the German invasion of Russia shocked the Germans into developing new AFVs such as the Panzer V Panther. Produced in huge numbers, its later variant the T-34/85 would see extended postwar service with Communist-supplied countries around the world - such as the Arab countries, the North Korea, North Vietnam and China.With detailed step-by-step model photography, specially commissioned walkround photography, scale drawings and wartime shots, this book provides all the details needed to model the main T-34 version - the Model 1943 - and its variants. There is a full roundup of the models available on the market, details of where you can see the real thing, a select bibliography, and survey of websites of interest.

Osprey Modelling Manual 18 examines Reginald Mitchell’s classic Spitfire — the only RAF type in continuous production throughout WWII (over 20,000 were built in some 40 major variations), and an airframe adaptable as a fighter, fighter-bomber and PR aircraft.This book provides all the details needed to model the main Spitfire Marks — the Mks V and IX — and other Spitfire variants. Includes a full roundup of the models available on the market, details of where you can see the real thing, a select bibliography, and survey of websites of interest.

This is the fifth title in the series and is intended to be a companion volume for Volume 3: Basic Military Vehicle Modelling and Volume 4: Advanced Military Vehicle Modelling.This title helps to complete the reader's knowledge of the skills and techniques required in military vehicle modelling. It covers such methods as scratch-building, superdetailing and the use of new materials including liquid plastic and photoetched details.These new techniques are vividly explained through a highly-illustrated, blow-by-blow guide to building a variety of kits, the M24 Chaffee, SdKfz 7/2 and 7/1, Bergepanther and many others.

This is the third in the Modelling Manual series which deals with the basics of military vehicle modelling one of the most popular subjects for modellers.The first of three books to deal with this fascinating subject, Basic Vehicle Modelling introduces the modeller to some basic model types with a series of close up, step by step photographs. Working with kits from Tamiya, Verlinden, Revell and others, the less experienced modeller is shown the do's and don'ts of modelling techniques, with particular emphasis on the common difficulties that the inexperienced modeller might face.

For the more experienced vehicle modeller this book takes the reader to a level of proficiency that some people only dream of.Step by step colour photographs and clear, precise language show scratchbuilding and superdetailing techniques which make gold award winners. Vehicles covered include 1/35 Hummel, SDKFZ Self propelled gun, Panther engine, Grant medium tank, DUKW Amphibious vehicle.

The best dioramas tell a story. While modelling and detailing individual figures or vehicles is a satisfying project in itself, placing the models in a realistic action setting provides a spectacular backdrop for your work. World War II - fought over a variety of terrain from the frozen Arctic to the heat and sand of the Western Desert, as well as through towns and cities and across forest and wilderness - allows an unlimited number of locations and tactical scenarios for dioramas.In WWII Dioramas, the skills of incomparable diorama modellers are laid bare in a way that will be of immense value to the average model-maker. Composition, detailing, construction and painting - all the skills of the model-maker's art are shown off in two brilliant dioramas: an urban scene in a war-torn town that combines work on buildings - exteriors and interiors - with figures, and a vivid tank action in the Bocage country of Normandy that focuses on realistic portrayals of men and vehicles in scenery.