Profiles and text: Mark Smith
Profiles based on the drawings of John Lambert
Soft back, 50 pages
Series Editor: Neil Robinson
Price around: £19.95 (contact Coastal Craft Models for an accurate up to date price: coastalcraftmodels@gmail.com)
ISBN: 978-0-9930934-2-5
Review by Geoff Coughlin (June 2016)
My thanks to Martin at Coastal Craft Models for supplying our review sample
Get this impressive reference here now at: www.coastalcraftmodelsuk.com
We have reviewed Volumes 1 & 2 already and you can find these in the Maritime Book Review Section in SMN
This series is designed to compliment the resin and multi-media kits available from Coastal Craft Models that feature many of the types and variants covered in the book and if these subjects are in any way your thing this book will prove an invaluable resource.
Quality is very high with nice art paper and good printing throughout. The subject matter is popular with maritime scale modellers and it’s a shame that the MTB series of vessels has never been well served, although Coastal Craft have remedied that with their great range of 1:72 multi-media kits.
All of these volumes contain useful period photographs that provide the detail reference you’ll need to make a model in 1:72 scale. Add to that the great drawings based on the originals by John Lambert and you have content that offers a winning formula.
It is with great sadness that I read Martin’s comment in the Foreword saying that John had passed away – I remember him fondly from the occasional chat at some model shows in the past. Also, the help he offered to Pete Stern some years back, over many years when Pete was building his immense large scale scratch built Fairmile D was legion.
If you look in the Coastal Craft pages in the Maritime Area in Finished Now, you’ll fine Julian Seddon’s excellent builds of two Coastal Craft kits and Julian was able to use the previous publications from Coastal Craft for these and found them invaluable.
Recommended
Geoff C.
Here are a couple of photos of Julian’s finished models…
