Airframe Album No 12 - The Gloster Gladiator-A Detailed Guide To The RAF’s Last Biplane Fighter by Richard A. Franks (Valiant Wings)
The Airframe Album series of books is now five years old. Airframe Albums offer everything that modern modellers want when they are tackling a specific subject.
They include:
- 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
For their twelfth aircraft subject Valiant Wings have rung the changes and gone with their first biplane subject:
Airframe Album No 12 - The Gloster Gladiator-A Detailed Guide To The RAF’s Last Biplane Fighter
by Richard A. Franks
This book is an essential companion for anyone tackling Gladiator kits in all scales and complexity from the old Pyro/Inpact 1/48thand Frog or Heller 1/72nd scale kits to newer offerings from the likes of Silver Wings (1/32nd), Roden (1/48th) or the new tool Airfix example (1/72nd).
Contents include all the elements listed plus:
- A wealth of historical photographs and detail images of preserved examples
- Period detail images during production and service use
- Isometric views by Chris Sandham-Bailey of all prototype and production airframes
- Colour profiles and by Richard J. Caruana
- 132 pages in total
- Lists of all Gladiator accessories and decals produced in all scales
- Kit build of the Silver Wings 1/32nd example by Steve A. Evans
Airframe Album No 12 - The Gloster Gladiator-A Detailed Guide To The RAF’s Last Biplane Fighter
by Richard A. Franks, £17.95 per copy + postage and packing.
The book is available from all good hobby stores and specialist bookshops. ISBN: 978-0-9957773-1-6
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, United Kingdom
On line order link:
http://www.valiant-wings.co.uk/pre-order-airframe-album-no12-2318-p.asp
More details and in-depth review to follow in our NEWS section soon!
