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Classics Publications |
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Luftwaffe Colours: Volume 4 Section 2 Jagdwaffe: The Mediterranean 1942 - 1943 by Jean-Louis Roba and Martin Pegg |
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Reviewed By Jack Bruno, #25313 |
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MSRP: $24.95 USD 9 x 12, 96 pages 200 photos, 25 full-color aircraft profiles plus maps, tables & numerous first-hand accounts Softbound ISBN: 1903223350 Item # CP335 The Classic Colours series is a continuous source of information on various reference materials for modelers and history buffs alike. This volume takes you to the closing months of the war in the African/Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Coverage and highlights of the careers of Marseille, Bar & Muncheberg are included as well as over 20 color plates of their aircraft and others. In step with the other volumes, the print and picture quality is outstanding. The history lesson alone is worth the price of admission as first hand accounts tell the story of the Axis/Luftwaffe retreat after El Alamein, the Torch Landings and all the way to the end in Tunisia. Included are several color pictures of heavily weathered machines that give the modeler a great reference of engine detail and color. The illustrations will keep you up to your eyeballs in Hasegawa and Tamiya 109's and Fw190's for a long time to come. No doubt one of the more popular decal makers will release subject matter based on this book. It will be well worth the wait. Photographic evidence of the 78/79 machines with the olive squiggles are plentiful. Fw's still in 74/75/76 livery are quite majestic with their white theater bands. Needless to say, you will never be disappointed in this series if you are a Luftwaffe buff or/and modeler. There is no doubt that I'll be relying on this volume to my ever growing stock of Luftwaffe W.W.II A/C. The African/Mediterranean Theater always fascinated me by the diversity of its camouflage and unit markings. This book enhances that desire for subject matter for anything other than Western/Eastern Front subjects. One of my favorite mounts is the 109G-2, "Red 1," by Oblt. Werner Schroer. Besides being very colorful, the accompanying story is fascinating. On his way back to Germany to be married, he loaded up wedding gifts (porcelain) in the fuselage of his A/C in Rhodes. On his way, spotted two Beaufighters and shot them down. Upon his landing discovered his gifts in shambles. Personal stories like this are aplenty and provides personalities and intimacies to the people you've only heard about. Based on the presentation, subject matter, color plates and historical information I highly recommend this book and entire Series. No Luftwaffe modeler should be with out it. I would like to thank John Noack and Specialty Press for providing IPMS USA with this book for review. |
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