Military Modelling
Guide to Military Vehicles

Booklet

reviewed by Bill Rutherford

By Robin Buckland, pub. by Argus Books, Wolsey House, Wolsey Rd., Hamel Hempstead, Herts., England HP2 4SS, £ 5.95 plus 10% p&p. 140 pages pb, b/w photos and plans.

This guide, as with other Military Modelling publications, successfully addresses one area of modelling quite thoroughly. The first three chapters (66 pages) survey, reasonably completely, the varied manufacturers and scales of armor and equipment miniatures available, including numerous photos of samples - some are filler (e.g., a photo of a boxtop of an Airfix M551 Sheridan?), but most portray representative samples of their makers' craft. Following are chapters on basic modelling tools (ok so you know it all - a beginner doesn't!) and techniques, and chapters addressing the peculiarities of metal and resin models (mostly 1/87 and 1/76 scale), detailing tricks, properly referencing one's model(s), and painting them.

This last discusses, briefly, camouflage, but due to the survey nature of the book, is sketchy. The discussion of the types of paints available and of the care and feeding of paint brushes is quite good, however. Obviously, this book is best used by the 'serious' modeler but then, we're almost all serious' modelers when it's our models we're talking about, be their scale 1/35 or 1/300! Throughout, this book's presentation is clear and interesting - a good value, especially so for the novice.

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