Airframe & Miniature Series No.6
Published: Valiant Wings Publishing
Author: Richard Franks
ISBN 978-0-95758611
Soft cover, 192 pages, black and white plus colour photos and colour profiles. 1:48 scale plans/drawings
Price: £18.95 RRP (Feb 2014)
Review by Geoff Coughlin
You can get this superb title here now at www.valiant-wings.co.uk, ADH Publishing and good specialist book and hobby retailers worldwide
Our thanks to Mark at Valiant Wings Publishing for supplying our review sample…
Vital statistics…
- 40+ pages of technical information
- 20+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams
- 20+ pages of camouflage and markings
- 25+ pages of model builds and modelling information
- 200+ photographs including wartime images
- Colour side views and four-views by Richard J. Caruana
- 3D isometric views of all variants by Jacek Jackiewicz
- Extensive 1:72nd and 1:48th scale full kit builds by Libor Jekl and Steve A. Evans
- Set of fold-out 1:48th scale plans.
Background info to the series
This is the sixth title in the Airframe & Miniature (AirMin) Series from Valiant Wings Publishing; others in the series include the Me 262 and Hawker Typhoon amongst others. The author, Richard Franks will be known to many for his Editorial role with Model Airplane International (MAI), part of the ADH Publishing Empire, plus of course other aviation and modelling titles. Also of course for much of the Modellers’ Data File books we continue to see widely at shows and on our shelves.
The North American P-51 Mustang is an iconic aircraft with the Early series aircraft differing significantly from later models in terms of detail and this title clarifies all those distinguishing features.
Modellers are fairly spoiled for choice when it comes to model kits of the Early P-51 Mustang and so this new title will prove popular amongst many scale modellers but also aviation historians and enthusiasts.
