Mr. Black Publications - Scale Modelling Manual 8

Mr. Black Publications - Scale Modelling Manual 8

SCALE MODELLING MANUAL VOLUME 8

This is the 8th Manual in our new Scale Modelling series where our aim is to bring a lot of concentrated information about painting and general modelling techniques for all modellers at a competitive retail price.

Each manual will deal with a specific topic in detail, offering a lot of different approaches and techniques and, in most cases, written by one author. The contents will be carefully selected and presented in a way that all readers should find something new to try and to adapt to their own methods. Each book will have high quality photos and a detailed text so the reader can easily follow the progress of the assembly and painting of each theme, to help adopt new modelling techniques and different approaches.

In previous editions the length of each theme was limited due to the number of pages taken for other content, but here there are no such limitations. Each theme will be presented in a most detailed and explanatory manner so there will be no omissions or unanswered questions.

Depending on the themes and contents, real painted colour chips of hues and mixes will be added with information on how to use them. In this series we will include various modelling aspects from Historic and Fantasy, Scale Models, Dioramas, Vignettes, Figures, Busts, Techniques and History You Can Model.

In total this book has 70 high quality photos, 40 of which are step-by-step or in-progress sequences, with a very detailed text, so the reader can easily follow the whole procedure in detail from start to finish. The author has included all the sets, accessories, and paint codes he used so the reader can easily identify them. Mr Black Publications Team has added a page with 24 Colour Paint Chips of 4 sets for Italian Military Forces that have been used in Most WWII Theaters of Battle.

We must thank the following: AK-Interactive (Fernando Vallejo), Andrea Miniatures (Alexandra Fernandez), Vallejo Acrylics (Alex Vallejo and Jaume Ortiz Forns), Scale75 (Jose Mendez), Kimera Kolors (Luca Marchetti and Pietro Balloni), Lifecolors (Alessandro Balbo and Rolando Iezzi), Yannis Papadopoulos and our English Text Editor Ken Jones.

Special thanks must go to Theodosis Giannakidis who provided us with all the necessary material so this book could be released as a printed work.

CONTENTS SCALE MODELLING MANUAL Vol.8

 4 “We Have to Move on”

How to build an exquisitely detailed Second World War diorama based on an Italian tank crew servicing their Carro Armato M13/40 in the North African Theatre combining commercial plastic and resin kits with some scratch building techniques thrown in

22 24 Colour Chips of Relevant Sets for Italian Military Forces in North Africa and Other WWII Theaters of Battle