The Aviation Workshop Publications LTD

On Target Profiles 8 book

Photo Reconnaissance Spitfires in Worldwide Service

ISBN # 1-904643-15-9 

Product Article by Steve Bamford on Feb 27 2006

 

 

 

This new book from Model Alliance is created by well known profile artist Jon Freeman.

The book focuses on the Photo Reconnaissance Spitfires in Worldwide Service and gives modellers a large selection of colour profiles to help expand their reference library. I've scanned a tiny selection of the colour profiles to give you  a small taste to the many colour profiles presented in this book.  In fact there are 105 different Photo Reconnaissance Spitfire colour profiles featured in this book.  Featured in this book are Photo Reconnaissance Spitfires in a large variety of paint schemes from the RAF, RN,  Royal Canadian AF, USAF, Russian AF, South African AF, Argentina AF, Royal Norwegian AF, Danish AF, Royal Indian AF, Belgian AF, Swedish AF, Royal Thai AF, Turkish AF.  The RAF and RN aircraft were deployed all around the world including Canada, France, North Africa, Egypt, Palestine, India,  Western Desert, Russia, Italy, Thailand,  Argentina, South East Asia, Norway, Denmark, Germany, Siam (Thailand), Singapore (Malaya), Belgium, Japan, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Suez Canal, Burma, Sweden, Turkey, and Malaysia.  The colour profiles in this book feature Spitfires from Mk1's through to the Mk19.  

Included with each colour profile is info on the particular plane as well as information about it's paint scheme.  Above is an example of one of the colour profiles.  Twenty three of the profiles also include a top and bottom view and two side profiles  to give an all around view of certain Spitfires included in this book.  Below I've include a tiny selection of some of the pages....out of respect to the artist's copyright, I am not providing larger scans.

105 different Spitfire colour profiles featured in this book

Also included in the book are 15 vintage photos (2 in colour) of Photo Reconnaissance Spitfires.   

Spitfire Decals for some of the planes featured in this book will be available from the The Aviation Workshop / Model Alliance Group website in the near future.

I'm always impressed with the consistant quality of the books in this series.  Although the cover is a soft cover....it is a heavy weight cardboard cover.  The pages are heavy weight paper....this is a reference book sure to last a long long time.  I'm quite impressed with this new book and I look forward to other additions to this new On Target Profile Series.  I recommend this book to anyone interested in Photo Reconnaissance Spitfires or Spitfires in general.  Special thanks to Jon Freeman for the review sample and bringing this book to my attention.

 

You can order this book directly from the The Aviation Workshop / Model Alliance Group website.

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford