Pen & Sword Books are not new to the plastic modeling industry. The UK-based publishing company has been around since 1990 while churning out titles covering subjects from the military, aviation, maritime, and other areas of history.

Author: Ian Baxter

The author, Ian Baxter, has written other books in the series including, His previous books in this Series include Hitler’s Boy Soldiers, Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants and German Army on the Eastern Front – The Advance, German Army on the Eastern Front – The Retreat and Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, The Crushing of Army Group (North) and the SS Waffen Division series including SS Leibstandarte Division and SS Totenkopf Division At War. He lives near Chelmsford, Essex.

HiSModel is a Czech manufacturer of high quality accessories for sailing ship models such as wooden blocks, laser cut wood decks, metal cannons, photo etch detail sets and much else for existing wood and plastic model sailing ships. The Statenjacht Utrecht ,their first complete plastic kit, is a model of an 18^th century luxury yacht built in the Netherlands that was used by the executives of the United East India Company. Between 1998 and 2003, a replica was built from the same plans which can still be seen today.

Another in ICM’s range of paint sets for use with their figures is this set for British WWII Infantry, indicated for use with their figure sets - #35616 ‘You are important to God’; #35617 ‘Montgomery’s Staff (Figures)’; and #35646 ‘British Vickers MG Crew’, although they can of course be used for any British WWII infantry figures.

The set contains the following 12ml paint pots; I have listed their intended uses:

• 1008 Deep Brown – for weapon stocks and other wooden parts
• 1027 Gun Metal Metallic – for weapons
• 1059 Green Ochre - webbing
• 1062 British Khaki – Uniform clothing
• 1069 Extra Dark Green – helmets and various accessories
• 2001 Varnish Matt

The back of the box has a couple of drawings showing where to use each colour on the figures.