Craft Series

Battlecraft - Operation Market Garden: A Bridge Too Far

Every General’s aim is to end a war by Christmas, and Montgomery, perhaps, saw his opportunity in a bold strike across the southern portion of the Netherlands close to the borders of an embattled Reich. Still heady from earlier victories in the Normandy...

Flight Craft Series: Messerschmitt Bf109

The famous Messerschmitt Bf 109 single-seat fighter was one of the most important warplanes of the Second World War. Originally designed during the 1930s, and a contemporary of the equally-legendary Supermarine Spitfire, it was vitally important to...

Flight Craft Series: North American Aviation P-51 Mustang

Features lots of illustrations and model-making content, for both general fans of the type and modelers. The North American P-51 Mustang was one of the most successful and effective fighter aircraft of all time. It was initially produced in response to a...

Flight Craft Series: The Boeing B-17

The B-17 Flying Fortress, a term coined by a Seattle Daily Times report in 1935, was a quantum leap in offensive air power. Designed for a nation whose foreign policy was still deeply isolationist, and an Air Corps whose in-service bomber fleet was...

Flightcraft 10: Mil' Mi-6/-26 Heavy Lift Helicopters

Developed in the early 1950s to meet a Soviet Army requirement and first flown in June 1957, the Mi-6 was the largest-yet helicopter created in the Soviet Union. Its notable features included a power-plant consisting of two turbo-shaft engines (for the...

Flightcraft 23: Airbus A380

On 27 April 2005, an aircraft lifted away from the runway of Toulouse-Blagnac Airport under the power of six massive Rolls-Royce Trent 900 turbofan engines. It carried a six-man crew, it was making its first flight, and it was making history. For this...

Flightcraft Special 03: RAF Fighters Before the Storm

When the First World War ended the then recently established Royal Air Force was awash with aircraft of all descriptions. More surprising, perhaps, was the fact that despite an ongoing cull of obsolescing types, on the last day of 1919, the RAF still...

Land Craft 6 - Humvee American Multi-Purpose Support Truck

The ultimate modeler’s resource filled with the history, photographs and builds of this American military legend whose service stretches from the plains of Germany to the deserts of the Gulf. With its characteristic wide track, low silhouette and its...

Land Craft Series: The Jeep Second World War

The Second World War Jeep was one of the most famous and influential military vehicles of all time, and over 600,000 were produced. It served with all the Allied forces during the war on every front and it has been the inspiration behind the design of...

Shipcraft 01 - German Pocket Battleships

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, using scale plans to highlight...

Shipcraft 18 - Titanic and Her Sisters Olympic and Britannic

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeler through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between...

ShipCraft 23 - Rodney and Nelson - Revised Edition

The 'ShipCraft' series provides in-depth information about building and modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller through a brief history of the subject class, highlighting differences between...

Tank Craft 33 -Scorpion and Scimitar British Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles, 1970-2020

The British Scorpion and Scimitar are among the most successful armored reconnaissance vehicles ever built and, almost fifty years after the initial design was introduced, updated versions are still in service today. These compact, maneuverable and...

Tank Craft Series: Churchill Tanks British Army, North-West Europe 1944-45

Tank Craft Series: Panther Medium Tank German Army and Waffen SS Eastern Front Summer, 1943

In July 1943 the German army launched what was to be its last major offensive on Soviet soil. Codenamed Operation Citadel, the attack had initially been scheduled to commence in May but was postponed by Hitler on a number of occasions to allow the...

Tank Craft Series: Panther Medium Tank IV. SS-Panzerkorps Eastern Front, 1944

12 pages of full color illustrations depicting over 20 different vehicles and their markings with histories of the Panzer regiments of the SS-Totenkopf and Wiking divisions during the battles of 1944 on the Eastern Front. During the summer of 1944 a...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer III - German Army Light Tank Operation Barbarossa 1941

A complete guide of the German Army Light Tank, the Panzer III, using archive photos and extensively researched color illustrations. The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era, which could fairly be said to...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer III German Army Light Tank North Africa El Alamein to Tunis, 1941–1943

The Pzkpfw III tank was the mainstay of the Panzer divisions during the Blitzkrieg era and made up the bulk of the armored force sent to North Africa. Although less heavily armored than many of its opponents it was sturdy and reliable and its main...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer III, German Army Light Tank North Africa, Tripoli to El Alamein 1941–1942

The Pzkpfw Ill was the most effective tank available to the German army in North Africa during the battles of 1941. It outnumbered all the other types in service with the Afrikakorps at that time and when compared to the Pzkpfw I and Pzkpfw II designs it...

Tank Craft Series: Panzer IV 1939-1945

The Panzer IV – Panzerkampfwagen IV – was one the foremost German fighting vehicles of the Second World War, and this volume in the TankCraft series is an ideal introduction to it. With detailed captions, text and illustrations the book tells the story...

Tank Craft Series: Sherman Tank Canadian, New Zealand and South African Armies: Italy, 1943–1945

The Sherman tank served with most Allied armies during the Second World War and it is justly famous for the role it played in the Normandy landings and the subsequent drive into Germany. But the part played by the British commonwealth armored units in...

Tank Craft Series: Stug III: Assault Gun German Army, Waffen-SS and Luftwaffe Units Eastern Front, 1944

“This is a great book if you want to learn more about modelling a StuG III or StuH 42 on the Eastern Front in 1944. …an easy-to-understand history of the most produced German armored fighting vehicle of the war…” -IPMS/USAFrom their introduction in 1940,...

Tank Craft Series: Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks German Army and Waffen-SS The Last Battles in the East, 1945

12 pages of full color illustrations depicting over 20 different vehicles and their markings, including the histories of the Panzer units that operated the Tiger I and Tiger II in the last months of the war on the Eastern Front. By the first weeks of...

Tank Craft Series: Tiger I and Tiger II Tanks. German Army and Waffen-SS, The Last Battles in the West, 1945

Tiger tanks were among the most-feared fighting vehicles of the Second World War and they gained almost legendary status, yet they never fulfilled their potential because they were not produced in sufficient numbers and the tide the war had turned...

Tank Craft Series: Tiger I German Army Heavy Tank Eastern Front, Summer 1943

The Tiger I tank, probably the most famous German armored vehicle of the Second World War, might have been a war-winning, breakthrough weapon if it had been produced in sufficient numbers and if it had been introduced earlier on the Eastern Front, before...