IPMS Number
35554
Paul Bradley
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DH.82A Tiger Moth with BombsPublished: December 17, 2022 Ukraine’s ICM has gone from strength to strength in recent years, and even now with Russia’s invasion threatening their country’s very existence, ICM are still able to produce and export fine model kits, such as this one. Their first boxing of this kit of the universally-known DH.82A Tiger Moth, released in 2021, features the standard RAF trainer version; this new boxing goes a slightly… more |
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Images of War: The Malayan Emergency – The Crucial Years 1949-53Published: December 13, 2022 From 1948 through the 1950s British and Commonwealth forces fought a ruthless communist insurgency on the Malay peninsula. Thanks to sound generalship and the dedication and resilience of the officers and men, the security forces eventually broke the terrorists' resolve. This book charts the service of one particular unit, the 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment, throughout their tour… more |
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Fairey Swordfish: Fleet Air Arm Legends #2Published: December 10, 2022 The Fairey Swordfish needs no introduction, it being one of those classics of aviation that find themselves famous for being available in the right place at the right time. This new book from Morton Books is the second in their Fleet Air Arm Legends series and is written by noted aviation historian Matthew Willis. Author Willis weaves a tight story of the need and development of the… more |
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Warpaint 133 C-47 Skytrain/Dakota in Worldwide Military ServicePublished: October 29, 2022 Perhaps the most famous and most long-lived transport aeroplane in history, the DC-3 and its military versions including the C-47 Dakota are still in service around the World some 85 years after it’s first flight. There cannot have been many air forces around the world that have not operated the type and at one point or another still use them today. It is only fitting that the almost… more |
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RAF Cold War Jet Aircraft In Profile 2Published: September 9, 2022 Here’s a really neat book for modelers. Illustrated and written by renowned profile artist Chris Sandham-Baily, aka Sandworm, RAF Cold War Jet Aircraft in Profile covers 14 different aircraft types designed and built by British companies and operated by the RAF between 1945 and 2010. The book features over 300 different colour profiles of the following types: Gloster Meteor, de… more |
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QANTAS and the Empire Flying BoatPublished: September 9, 2022 Between 1938 and 1948, QANTAS Short Empire flying boats navigated a dramatic and dangerous period for commercial aviation. They flew the Singapore to Sydney section of the pre-war Imperial Airways UK to Australia air route, introducing a new level of luxury travel to the route. However, the outbreak of war cut short this brief glamorous time and brought the boats increasingly onto the front… more |
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British Aviation: The First Half-CenturyPublished: September 9, 2022 The British aviation industry produced a stunning variety of types in the half-century until 1953, from the famous Supermarine Spitfire and Avro Lancaster to the esoteric Planet Satellite and Armstrong Whitworth Apollo (Kudos to those who didn’t have to look up those latter two!). This new book from Key Publishing uses photos from the famous Aeroplane magazine archive to illustrate this wide… more |
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Villers-Bocage Through The LensPublished: September 1, 2022 Villers-Bocage in Normandy has, for years, been the battle that made the reputation of Nazi Germany’s tank ace, the SS hero, Michael Wittmann. In this book the battle is analyzed in depth for the first time through detailed examination of the images taken by war photographers after the town was captured by German forces. The book is a straight reprint of an article in the British… more |
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Tempest Wheels, Early and LatePublished: August 17, 2022 The new Airfix 1/72 Tempest V kit is very nice but, in some areas there’s a slight lack of detail and sharpness. These two new releases from Brengun/Hauler in the Czech Republic can fix one of those areas of weakness. Cast in Brengun’s standard medium grey resin, there are two different items - what they term Early and Late Wheels. What this means is reality is that early Tempests had… more |
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RAF Aircraft of the Cold War, 1970-90Published: August 16, 2022 Subtitled ‘Air-to-Air Images,’ this book by Key Publishing is a photographic collection of such images of the RAF during the Seventies and Eighties, a period marked by tensions between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in which the RAF was a major player in the defense of Western Europe through its forces in the UK and West Germany. Author Tony Paxton was a frontline RAF fighter pilot and was… more |