CHRIS CLIFFORD discovers a wealth of quality reference in Chandos’ handsome new reference book, German Wings in Italian Skies.
Chandos Publications will please a host of modellers with its splendid new book. At 248 pages, this weighty hardback examines how types designed and built in Germany were employed, between 1911 and 1945. While Messerschmitt’s Bf 109 fills many of the pages, as you might expect, there is so much more on other aircraft such as the Ju 87 Stuka… but also refreshingly less-well-known additions, the Ju 52 included.
Regardless of type, kit-builders will benefit mainly from the superb photographs, but author Luigino Caliario’s narrative is engaging and packed with information to support the imagery and provide context. Those with particular interest in camouflage and markings will doubtless be inspired by the many colour profile artworks. And readers who place value on finer structural details also have useful close-up views showing engines, cockpits, weaponry and the like. Extra colour in human terms comes via many excerpts from personal accounts, diary entries and photos of aircrew and groundcrew members with aircraft. These certainly serve to inspire if you’re considering a diorama.
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