The Supermarine Swift – A Technical Guide

Publisher: Valiant Wings Publishing
Airframe Detail Series – 4th title
Author: Richard A. Franks
Price: £12.95 GBP plus P&P
ISBN: 978-0-993090899
Review by: Geoff Coughlin (March 2016)

82 pages, softback, high quality art paper, colour and black & white photos, profiles and drawings throughout.

Our thanks to Mark at Valiant Wings Publishing for supplying our review sample… Get this impressive title here now

Airframe Detail Series – 4th title – The Supermarine Swift – A Technical Guide

It’s hard to keep up with Valiant Wings at the moment, they just keep releasing such useful and impressive titles that all modellers love. I for one am certainly not complaining – far from it! This is a classic one-stop-shop for anyone interesting in building a model of or just finding out more about the type.

The Supermarine Swift has proved to be a popular subject with scale modellers in recent years with the release of the Airfix model in 1:72 scale – you’ll see from the attached photo that the kit makes up into a very neat little representation of the real thing. Sadly, we are very short of models in other scale for the Swift, yet we can live in hope I guess?

Contents include:

• A wealth of historical and modern photographs
• Pictures of the real aircraft
• Manufacturer’s photos
• Colour side profiles by Richard J. Caruana
• Lists of all Supekrmarine Swift kits, accessories and decals available at time of publication.

Recommended to all aircraft scale modellers
Geoff C.