Airframe Album No 10 is Announced!
Information supplied by Mark Peacock
I am delighted to announce the next title in the Airframe Album series from Valiant Wings Publishing. This series of books offers everything that modern modellers want when they are tackling a specific subject, it includes:
- Period diagrams
- Data from flight manuals
- Data from spare parts catalogues
- Fully detailed 3D isometric views of prototype and production machines
- Full colour profiles and concise camouflage and marking notes
Airframe Album No 10 - The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet - A Detailed Guide To The Luftwaffe’s Rocket-powered Interceptor by Richard A. Franks
Our tenth title in the Airframe Album series will be an essential companion for anyone tackling the Meng (1/32nd), Trimaster/Dragon (1/48th), Academy and even the older Airfix and Heller kits in 1/72nd scale.
Contents will include all the elements listed plus:
- A wealth of historical photographs and detail images of the world’s preserved examples
- Period detail images during production and service use
- Isometric views by Wojciech Sankowski of all prototype and production airframes from DFS 194 through to Me 263/Ju 248
- Colour profiles and by Richard J. Caruana
- At least 100 pages in total
- Lists of all DFS 40/194, Me 163A, B, C & D plus Me 263/Ju 248 accessories and decals produced in all scales
- Kit builds of the PM DFS 194 and Special Hobby 1/72nd Me 163A by Libor Jekl and the Trimaster/Dragon 1/48th and Meng 1/32nd Me 163Bs by Steve Evans
Airframe Album No 10 - The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet - A Detailed Guide To The Luftwaffe’s Rocket-powered Interceptor by Richard A. Franks will retail at only £16.95 per copy + postage and packing.
The book will also be available from all good hobby stores and specialist bookshops . Publication is scheduled for early September. ISBN is 978-0-9935345-3-9.
Pre-orders can be made via the Valiant Wings website, www.valiant-wings.co.uk, by ‘phone on 01234 273434 (+44 1234 273434 if calling from outside the UK) or by writing to:
Valiant Wings Publishing
8 West Grove
Bedford
MK40 4BT
Pre-order before September 1st and save £2.00 on postage and packing!
Best wishes
Mark Peacock
Publisher
This article created on Tuesday, August 02 2016; Last modified on Tuesday, August 02 2016