This softcover book from
HT Model Magazine
is specifically devoted to the Letov S-328 and S-528. This is a soft cover
book made from heavy weight glossy magazine paper, so it will hold up
well to continued use. The cover....(although a soft cover) is
made from thick glossy paper and will hold together well. The book
is produced in Slovakia, so it is written in the Slovak language and
comes with 6 pages in English to
translate the main introduction text of
the book, but the true beauty and value of this book
is it's detailed walkaround photos and historical wartime photos of the
Letov S-328 and S-528's.
The Letov
S-328 and S-528's are between the War bi-plane aircraft. This type
of aircraft was a 2 seat aircraft used for bombing that carried a 500Kg
bombload. These aircr5aft were used by the Czecho-Slovak Air
Force, Luftwaffe when some were captured, Bulgaria Air Force. This
book has a large selection of photos......294 B&W photos and
17colour glossy photos. There are also 80 beautifully done colour
profiles of various Slovak, German and Bulgarian and even some used by
Police Air Force......I've included one colour
profile below to give you a feel. The photos in this book focus on
most if not all the detail areas that modellers are obsessed with. Lots of
cockpit photos.....colour photos of the engine......photos of various cannons and machine guns,
fuselage framing and drawings of wing ribbing and so much
more. As well as
photos of the landing gear, fuselage interior, guns, cockpit, exterior, and on and on.
This book is very complete.
One very interesting part of this
book is the section that is from original documents that explains the location
and size etc of nation markings.
The 80 colour profiles are single
side views with the occasional view of the top of the wings to give you an idea
of the layout of the camo. Below
I've include a tiny selection of some of the pages....out of respect to the
producers of this fine book, I am not providing larger scans.
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Cockpit photos |
Floats
and ski photos |
colour
and B&W Engine photos |
Colour
profiles |
black and white drawings |
80
different colour profiles featured in this book
Helpful engine, gun, cockpit
and other detail photos....some in colour.
I like the many B&W photos
that show the aircraft without any skin or cloth covering......thus exposing the
framework and interior detail.
I'm quite impressed
with the quality of this book and I look forward to other
editions from this company. I recommend this book to all modellersplannign
on building this aircraft as a model. I am quite pleased to add this book to my library.....it will
prove to be a very helpful book oin my reference library. Special thanks to the folks at
HT
Model Magazine for the review sample and bringing this book to my attention.
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HT model
Na letisko 49
058 01 Poprad
Slovak Republic
Europe
tel. ++421 52 7768212
fax. ++421 52 7768408
htmodel@nextra.sk
www.htmodel.sk
Or all their publications are carried by another Slovak internet MOS:
www.hobbyshop.sk
Steve
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