Airframe & Miniature 10: de Havilland Mosquito - Part 2: Fighter, Fighter- Bomber & Night Fighter (inc. Sea Mosquito), by Richard A. Franks, Valiant Wings
Valiant Wings Publishing’s tenth title in the well-established Airframe & Miniature series will be de Havilland Mosquito - Part 2: Fighter, Fighter- Bomber & Night Fighter (inc. Sea Mosquito) by Richard A. Franks.
Airframe & Miniature No 2-The de Havilland Mosquito Part 2 is scheduled for delivery early July 2017. The good news-it’s up to 208 pages in size! The even better news is that owing to some clever work by their designer they have been able to peg the cover price at £18.95 making this book the best value package that Valiant Wings have ever produced.
Attached (photo gallery at the end of article) sample pages of the book.
The modelling map in relation to the Mosquito has changed dramatically over the past eighteen years and much more reference material is now available. The time is therefore right to bring out new titles that comprehensively bring modellers and enthusiasts up to date with the type. This second volume follows Valiant Wings first book, covering the bomber and photo-reconnaissance versions released in 2016.
This tenth book in the popular Airframe & Miniature series is packed with vital information that no active modeller and Mosquito enthusiast should be without.
It will contain:
- 40+ pages of technical information
- 20+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams
- 5+ 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 fighter, fighter-bomber, night fighter and Sea Mosquito variants by Wojciech Sankowski
- Specially commissioned extensive full kit builds by Libor Jekl, Steve A. Evans and Dani Zamarbide of the 1/72nd scale Tamiya FB Mk VI, Hasegawa NF Mk II and FB Mk XVIII, 1/48th scale Tamiya FB Mk VI in BOAC markings and an Airfix FB Mk VI converted to a Nationalist Chinese Air Force FB Mk 26, plus the 1/32nd scale Tamiya FB Mk VI kits.
- Specially commissioned front cover artwork by Jerry Boucher
ISBN is 978-0-9935345-8-4. RRP will be only be £18.95 per copy + postage and packing. Pre-orders via the Valiant Wings website, http://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
The de Havilland Mosquito - Part 2: Fighter variants (inc. Sea Mosquito) by Richard A. Franks is also available from all good specialist bookshops and certain hobby retailers. Publication is planned for early July.
Pre-order specials! – Order your copy before July 4th, save £2.00 on postage and get a chance to win a large scale Mosquito kit in a special pre-order prize draw!
So, the big prize on offer in AM10 book pre-order prize draw is a superb 1/32 scale Tamiya de Havilland Mosquito kit. Anyone who pre-orders the book before July 4th will be entered into the hat. This includes everyone who has pre-ordered so far, irrespective of which country you live in.
For more details please visit:
http://www.valiant-wings.co.uk/pre-order-airframe--miniature-no10-2313-p.asp
