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Airmark Modellers Airguide 23: Douglas SBD Dauntless

The Airmark series is a smaller, one stop, full colour book of a specific aircraft, with background details, walk arounds, colour side profiles and model builds, ideal for the enthusiast and modeller alike

Airmark Modellers Manual 10: Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Airmark Modellers Manual 17: F4F Wildcat

Airmark Modellers Manual is a exciting series looking at the history of the aircraft, detailed scaled drawings, colour schemes and modelling the aircraft. In full colour, photos and illustrations.

Airmark Profile & Scale #27: F-89 Scorpion

Airplanes in Scale Vol. 2: Jets

ENGLISH VERSION

AK Interactive TINT INC #01

The best publication for figure modelers ever created! Our new magazine features comprehensive articles written by the best figure painters from around the world who will teach you their tricks and techniques. If you liked our Figure FAQ, you cannot miss...

AK Learning Series 01 - Realistic Wood effects

First issue of the AK-Interactive’s collection Learning Series.This volume dedicated to paint different types of wood, planes, ships, tools, accessories, etc. The necessary techniques for all kind of modelers. Through its pages we will discover how to...

AK Learning Series 09 - THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO MAKE BUILDINGS IN DIORAMAS

The latest addition to our successful Learning Series is a guide book devoted to the creation of scale buildings. Top specialists from around the world explain what tools and materials they use and how they work with them in order to reproduce realistic...

AK Learning Wargames #01 Starship Techniques

The way wargame painters approach their projects is different from other fields, such as model making. The difference lies in the balance between time and quality, as it is common to have to paint a large number of miniatures. Some figures, such as...

AK-Interactive: LITTLE WARRIORS Vol.1

Ammo Mig In Combat 2 - Mecha Battleground (English)

Continuing our dynamic book series about painting and weathering Mechas, In combat 2 is finally available. Ammo of Mig Jiménez follows the path opened with the first book of the series (In combat), where some of the best modelers of the subject taught us...

Arab Revolutions and Border Wars Vol.3 - AK Interactive

148 Pages. Soft Cover. Volume 3.   New profile book. Whether you like Arab vehicles, you make models or not, you should take a look at this super-book with lots of inspirational profiles, with information, anecdotes, etc. You can buy this book as a sole...

Asia @ War: At the Forward Edge of Battle - A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016: Volume 1

This is a well-researched and authoritative account by a military historian, Maj Gen Syed Ali Hamid. It embraces the evolution of the Pakistan Armoured Corps, including its culture, organization, doctrine, equipment, operational performance, overseas...

Asia @ War: At the Forward Edge of Battle - A History of the Pakistan Armoured Corps 1938-2016: Volume 2

At the Forward Edge of Battle is the first ever illustrated history of the Pakistan Armoured Corps. The Pakistan Armoured Corps is based on a unique blend of values and traditions inherited from its predecessors, and those of the post-Independence...

Asia @ War: BORNEO STAND-OFF VOLUME 1 Seeds of the Confrontation and the Brunei Revolt of 1962

The aftermath of the Second World War saw many colonial empires in a state of upheaval. In South East Asia, what had been armed resistance against the Japanese invaders and occupiers was now often turned into national liberation movements seeking...

Asia @ War: Emperor's Own: Ethiopians in the Korean War

On June 25, 1950, as he was flying back to Washington D.C. to deal with the outbreak of war in Korea, US President Harry Truman thought, “In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak. I recalled some earlier...

Asia @ War: France’s War in Indochina: Volume 1: The Tiger versus the Elephant, 1946–1949

...a very interesting book with insights into how French forces dealt with Viet Minh tactics and strategies, anticipating almost the same problems faced by American forces in Vietnam nearly twenty years later. The VVA VeteranUndoubtedly, Americas attempt...

Asia @ War: Hunting the Viet Cong: Volume 2: The Fall of Diem and the Collapse of the Strategic Hamlets 1961-1964

In the early 1960s, the American-backed South Vietnamese government began an aggressive counterinsurgency programme aimed at eliminating the Viet Cong. The policy – known as the Strategic Hamlet Programme – seriously hurt and ‘cut up’ the VC. The second...

Asia @ War: NINE LIVES OF THE FLYING TIGER VOLUME 1 America's Secret Air Wars in Asia, 1945-1950

The famed American Volunteer Group (AVG) created in August 1941, under the command of Claire Lee Chennault set an example of heroism for the American public opinion at the onset of the Second World War. This band of volunteer aviators serving under the...

Asia @ War: Operation Cactus: Indian Military Intervention in the Maldives, 1988

In 1988, the Indian Army and Air Force, ably supported by the Indian Navy, carried out a daring intervention in the Maldives. The government of the Maldives, led by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, facing an attempted coup by PLOTE, a renegade group of Tamil...

Asia @ War: Operation Meghdoot: India’s War in Siachen – 1984 to Present

In 1984, the Indian Army carried out a stunning operation that captured the Siachen Glacier in the northernmost regions of what is now the Union Territory of Ladakh. Since that time, a full brigade of Indian troops has faced off against a similar number...

Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War Volume 4 - 1995-2002

In April 1995, the LTTE resumed the war by launching a surprise attack against the Sri Lankan Navy at Trincomalee, thus opening the third phase – the so-called Eelam War III – of the decades-long Sri Lankan civil war. From 1995 to 2002, both sides...

Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War: Volume 1 - 1971-1987

When released into independence from Great Britain in 1948, the stunningly beautiful island of Ceylon, renamed Sri Lanka in 1972, was expected to become a sort of ‘South Asian Singapore.' However, stable political order and bright economic prospects...

Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War: Volume 2 - 1987-1990

Upon achieving independence from Great Britain in 1948, the stunningly beautiful island of Ceylon, re-named Sri Lanka in 1972, was expected to become a sort of ‘South Asian Singapore’. However, stable political order and bright economic prospects proved...

Asia @ War: Paradise Afire: The Sri Lankan War: Volume 3 - 1990-1994

In June 1990, a mere three months after the Indian Peace Keeping Force withdrawal from Sri Lanka, the war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government resumed and was to continue unabated until another cease-fire in...

Asia @ War: Red Shirt/Yellow Shirt Protest and Insurrection in Thailand 2005-2014

A detailed account of the political crises of 2005–2014, the protest groups and the security response to these events, culminating in the seizure of power in 2014 by General Prayuth Chan O-Cha in a military coup. Thailand is often thought of in the West...

Asia @ War: Red Star Versus Rising Sun - Volume 2: The Nomonhan Incident 1939

During the first half of the 20th century, the Empire of Japan fought a series of undeclared wars in the Far East against Tsarist Russia and the successor Soviet Union. The first of these, fought in 1904-1905 over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria...

Asia @ War: Rooks in Afghanistan: Volume 1: Sukhoi Su-25 in the Afghanistan War, 1981-1985

Rooks in Afghanistan tells the story of the aircraft and crews of units of the Soviet Air Force equipped with the Sukhoi Su-25 attack aircraft. Between 1978 and 1989, a total of 582 single-seat Su-25s were manufactured for the Soviet Air Force – all at...

Asia @ War: Soviet Military Aviation in Central Asia 1917-41

A detailed exploration of the inter-war use of air power in Soviet Central Asia, drawing from Russian-language sources and photographic archives. The utilization of air power by the Communist regime in Russia during the revolutionary period and civil war...

Asia @ War: Target Saigon 1973-75 : Volume 1 - The Pretence of Peace

After 27 years of conflict it seemed that peace would finally settle on the Indochina peninsula on 27 January 1973 with the signing of a peace accord in Paris. The North Vietnamese had previously launched their greatest offensive against South Vietnam...

Asia @ War: Target Saigon 1973-75 Volume 2 - The Fall of South Vietnam: The Beginning of the End, January 1974 – March 1975

Drawing on a wide range of Vietnamese-language sources, the author presents a detailed account of the continuing efforts of North Vietnam to invade the South, enlivened by a large number of previously unpublished photographs, and color profiles for...

Asia @ War: Target Saigon 1973-75 Volume 4 - The Final Collapse, April-May 1975

After two protracted years of fighting that wearied down the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the North Vietnamese decided to launch their final campaign in January 1975. The president of South Vietnam, Nguyen Van Thieu, decided upon a wide range...

Asia @ War: Terror and Response: The India-Pakistan Proxy War 2008-2019

In February 2019, the Indian Air Force struck at targets in Pakistan in retaliation for a terrorist attack on a convoy of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force in Kashmir. The next day, Pakistan retaliated in an inconclusive air battle. These were the...

Asia @ War: The Darkest Hour - Volume 1: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean 1942 - The Opening Moves

"Michal Piegzik has produced a very good analysis of the Japanese thrust westwards into the Indian Ocean." —The Northern Mariner The Darkest Hour presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March–April 1942, the main goal of...

Asia @ War: The Darkest Hour Volume 2: The Japanese Offensive in the Indian Ocean 1942 - The Attack against Ceylon and the Eastern Fleet

The Darkest Hour presents the Imperial Japanese Navy offensive in the Indian Ocean area in March–April 1942, the main goal of which was to destroy the Royal Navy in the Far East and achieve domination on the western flank of the Pacific War on the eve of...

Asia @ War: The Easter Offensive: Vietnam 1972 : Volume 1 - Invasion Across the DMZ

On 30 March 1972 the South Vietnamese positions along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separated the North from South Vietnam were suddenly shelled by hundreds of heavy guns and multiple rocket launchers. Caught in a series of outposts of what was the...

Asia @ War: The Erawan War: Volume 3: The Royal Lao Armed Forces 1961-1974

Best known by their French acronym for Forces Armées du Royaume – FAR – the Royal Lao Armed Forces were the official defense force of the Kingdom of Laos – what is now the Lao People’s Democratic Republic – from 1949 until 1975. Founded in 1947, when...

AVG003 - Sopwith Camel

A British icon of World War I aerial combat, just as the Supermarine Spitfire is for World War II, the Sopwith Camel might more aptly be compared to the equally iconic (if one is Japanese) Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero. A superb dogfighter in the hands of pilots...

AVG005 - Albatros D.I–D.II

In 1916 German aerial domination had been lost to the French and British fighters. German fighter pilots requested an aircraft that was more powerful and more heavily armed, and the Albatros design bureau set to work on what was to become an iconic...

Aviation in Scale Orange Series #1 - Modelling the RAF in World War II