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Item 54
: Panzer Modelling
Masterclass
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Tony |
Windrow & Greene |
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Item 53
: Model Buildings
Masterclass Roy Porter, a prize-winning modeller of many years' standing and an expert on miniature architecture, shares his deep knowledge of the best materials and techniques to produce Gold Medal standard scale model houses, street scenes, military buildings, shops, huts - everything the diorama or railway modeller could want. Here, explained in step-by-step detail and illustrated with more than 250 colour photographs and drawings, are examples of every level of building from a bank of sandbags to a long cabin or a jungle hut; from superb half-timbered cottages to brick town houses - complete, and bombed-out, from corrugated iron Nissen huts to concrete pillboxes. Hdbd., 8 1/4" x 11 1/4", 128 pgs., 250 color ill. ISBN : 1-85915-063-2 |
Roy Porter |
Windrow & Greene |
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71 : Terrain
Modelling Modelling Masterclass series Modellers ambitious to display their work to the best advantage in vignettes and dioramas - ehrther military or civilian subjects, of all historical periods - will find thsi book invaluable. It explains how to create miniature landscape in strikingly attractive detail, reproducing a range of different effects - from seasonal vegetation and weather to tropical jungle and beaches, from peaceful lanes and meadows to fire-damaged battlefields. The author shares the lessons of many years' experience, illustrated with nearly 300 color photographs - both step by step and showing finished dioramas - covering : preparation, materials and techniques, rocks and cliffs, grass, hedges, fields and bushes, trees and woodland, scorched earth, fire effects, jungle, water effects, sand and gravel, beach and desert effects, tracks and roads, modern surfaces, snow and ice. Hdbd., 8 1/4" x 11 1/4", 128 pgs., 300 color ill. |
Richard |
Osprey |
1-84176-062-5 | |
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72 : WWII
Dioramas Osprey Modelling Manual - 7 While modelling and detailing individual figures or vehicles is a satisfying project in itself, placing the models in a realistic action setting provides a spectacular backdrop for your work. World War II - fought over a variety of terrain from the frozen Arctic to the heat and sand of the western desert, as well as through towns and cities and across forest and wilderness - allows an unlimited number of locations and tactical scenarios for dioramas. In WWII Dioramas the skills of incomparable dioramas mdellers are laid bare in a way that will be inmense value to the average model-maker. Composition, detailing, construction, painting - all the skills of the model-maker's art are shown off in two brilliant dioramas : an urban scene in a war-torn town that combines work of buildings - exteriors and interiors - with figures and a vivid tank action in the Bocage country of Narmandy that focuses on the realistic portrayal of men and vehicles in scenery Softbd., 7 3/4" x 10 1/2", 64 pgs., all color ill. |
Jerry Scutts |
Osprey |
1-902579-21-6 | |
Item 14
: Armor
Conversion and Detailing projects |
Finescale |
Kalmbach |
0-89024-268-2 |
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Item 05 :Models in
Action No.1, Normandy |
Hiroshi |
Dai Nippon Kaiga |
4-499-22639-2 |
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Item 03 : Models in
Action No.2,Berlin 1945 |
Art Box |
Dai Nippon Kaiga |
4-499-22660-0 | |
Item 24
: Modeling Tanks and
Military Vehicles |
Sheperd |
Kalmbach |
0-89024-045-0 |
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Item 23
: How to Build
Dioramas
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Sheperd |
Kalmbach |
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Item 17
: Scale Modeling Tips
and Techniques The best modeling hints from 10 years of FineScale Modeler magazine. Add to the realism of your models, solve modeling problems and discover shortcut. sftbd., 8 1/2" x 11", 72 pgs., 20 color and 80 b&w photos. ISBN : 0-89024-127-9 |
Mark Hembree |
Kalmbach |
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Item 16 : How to paint
Realistic Military Figures Learn the fundamentals of painting and detailing with acrylics, including how to choose the proper tools, achieve light and shadow effects, display figures and even create simple dioramas. Entire chapters are devoted to painting faces, Napoleonic uniforms, camouflages and armor with acrylics. sftbd., 8 1/2" x 11", 88 pgs., 200+ photos and b&w ill. ISBN : 0-89024-125-2 |
Lynn Kessler Don Winar |
Kalmbach |