Modeling Realistic Tanks and Artillery: An Illustrated Guide

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Summary: I was really desappointed
Review: As a modeler I consider this book less than basic, and of course useless if you want to improve or just learn any kind of technique. There is a lack of unity and coherence among the descriptions.
I would describe this book as an introduction for a beginner.

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Summary: Pictures tell more story than words
Review: Modeling Realistic Tanks and Artillery : An Illustrated Guide is really helpful and most easy to understand by all AFVs modeller. This is one of the illustrated guide series by the author and his first book on Tanks and Artilery. Consist of 5 chapters which covers all basic tehniques from removing seams, cutting parts from their sprues, detailing ,scratchbuilding, building interiors to weather and finishing an AFV project. It's very neat and easy to understand and get the idea by looking at one photo while words consumed more space and pages to be visualised. Also included the AFV gallery of colored photos. This book is a must for all AFVs modeller be it beginner to advanced.

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Summary: For Beginners
Review: This book is more of a curiosity coming from a long line of worthy Kalmbach / Fine Scale Modler publications. The book covers basic skills using plenty of color photographs, but Kalmbach's "Modeling TANKS and MILITARY VEHICLES" by Sheperd Paine written twenty years ago (and which is still available) is more useful and remains more informative. If the title included "Introduction to ... " or "For beginners" I wouldn't have bothered to write this review. If you want to see "realistic" looking armor models, you won't give the cover of this book more than glance. The cover's tank looks like a plastic model in basecoat primer with some chalk dust sprinkled on it, which frankly isn't very inspiring. I would recommend this book to beginning modelers; but for those who have built a few kits, this book will soon gather dust of its own.