The Warpaint series should be remarkably familiar to most modelers. This is #147 in the series and covers the Nakajima Ki-43. The book covers the development of and the service history of the type. The most numerous and famous of the Japanese Army Air Force aircraft, it was comparable to the Japanese Navy’s A6M Zero. One of the interesting facts is that to Japanese people, the Ki-43 is more famous and revered than its counterpart, the Zero! So much so that it is often the aircraft of choice for anime producers.

The book is filled with many wartime and immediate postwar photographs. One of the best features is the substantial number of color profiles covering Japanese, Republic of China, Manchuko, US captured examples, Royal Thai, French, Communist China, and Indonesian examples. Nice color photos of the4 surviving examples are also included.

This is an excellent edition, with a lot of valuable information. I can recommend this book to those interested in Japanese aircraft of WWII, aircraft history, and aircraft modelers! You will not be disappointed and can find many colorful schemes to model ( I like the blue upper surface one from the 1^st Chutai, 20^th Sentai on Formosa in 1944.

I thank Guideline Publications for the review copy and IPMS/USA for the review opportunity.