- AIRfile Publications
- Compiled by Neil Robinson
- Illustrated by Peter Scott
- 80 pages – colour throughout
- Price: £17.99 GBP plus p&p direct from the publisher – here
- Review by Geoff Coughlin
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Introduction
Quality reference books are always interesting, especially when they seem to cover something a little different or an area that hasn’t been done to death before. So… I was very interested when Sara said that Neil had a couple of good titles to show us at the recent (and very well attended Lincoln Model Show at Southwell Racecourse, UK). This is ‘the other one’, the first being also reviewed in your Book Review area in SMN.
Quick summary
The colour schemes and markings of the aircraft, from both sides, involved in Operation ‘Torch’, the first Anglo-American amphibious operation of World War Two.
P&P | UK £2.40 | Europe £5.75 | Rest of World £9.95
What I like
This is written and presented exactly like we modellers will like and appreciate. Many familiar types and a few less so fill the pages with profiles in plan (mostly) and side views – excellent. There really is something for everyone in this title – Armee de L’Air de Vichy and AeroNavale, Fleet Air Arm, US Navy, RAF Gibraltar, USAAF Twelfth Air Force, Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica.
The quality of the profiles is very high and you have pretty much all the information that you’ll need in the captions and text.
Other comments and summary
An improvement over the RAF Trainers Vol.1 title recently reviewed is a contents page at the front that lists Air Arms featured, although some page numbers would be welcome. Equally, there’s no index at the back of the title and this is a little frustrating, but hardly sufficient to stop anyone buying a copy. Far from it, this is a good book, covering an important aspect of WWII military aviation that will appeal to many aircraft modellers and enthusiasts. There are some great ideas for modelling projects and so this title comes highly recommended.
Geoff C.