It's really aimed at the novice/returnee to plastic kit building but there's plenty in there to interest the more experienced, and anyway going back to basics once in a while can only be a good thing. I haven't built a tank or 'plane kit for at least twenty years, probably longer, but reading through this might just inspire me to have a go at armour modelling again. The chapters cover the basics from cutting parts of off the sprues, sorry 'runners', to painting and weathering. The later chapters on weathering are particulary interesting, us railway modellers could learn a lot from the military modelling crowd, adding realistic paint chips using an offcut of sponge for example. The use of various washes is covered, as is the use of hairspray for creating rust finishes! At the end we see some particulary fine examples of the kit builders art, perhaps too fine in a 'I could never build something as good as that way'.
A couple of odd facts taken from it - film director Peter Jackson has his own company Wingnut Wings specialising in WW1 aircraft, and during the Cold War the Czeck Republic viewed model making as a wholesome pursuit.
Paul.
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