La Luftwaffe en couleurs, Tome II: 1942-1945
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Book Review
This is the second volume in their collection of period colour photos of Luftwaffe operations and it covers the 1942 to 1945 period. The format is A4, portrait, Perfect bound with 120 pages and 400+ photos. The text is in French throughout, but most is in the form of the extensive photo captions, so modern translation software should help you there. The coverage actually starts by dealing with the Russian Front, then moves on to the Mediterranean, then moves on to look at the home front as the war deteriorated for Nazi Germany and the coverage is concluded with a section that looks at the final stages of WWII and the aftermath. Just about every operational type you can think of is covered, with good shots of captured equipment such as the LeO 451 and a lot of wrecked Luftwaffe types at war's end.
A number of these images will be well known, as they were propaganda shots used in such titles as Adler and Signal magazines of the era, but there are also a lot of images that most will not have seen before. These are all produced nice and big, with excellent clarity and although the colours may not be 100% accurate after all these years (I would doubt that they can be, plus printing is not a sure-fire way of reproducing accurate colours), they still impart a lot of information.
Conclusion
Really this title is a must for all Luftwaffe modellers, as it holds so much information about colour and markings, as well as being really useful for weathering etc.
Our thanks to Lela Presse for the review sample, this should be available from specialist outlets in the UK, but if you have any problems visit their website or email contact@avions-bateaux.com
This is the second volume in their collection of period colour photos of Luftwaffe operations and it covers the 1942 to 1945 period. The format is A4, portrait, Perfect bound with 120 pages and 400+ photos. The text is in French throughout, but most is in the form of the extensive photo captions, so modern translation software should help you there. The coverage actually starts by dealing with the Russian Front, then moves on to the Mediterranean, then moves on to look at the home front as the war deteriorated for Nazi Germany and the coverage is concluded with a section that looks at the final stages of WWII and the aftermath. Just about every operational type you can think of is covered, with good shots of captured equipment such as the LeO 451 and a lot of wrecked Luftwaffe types at war's end.
A number of these images will be well known, as they were propaganda shots used in such titles as Adler and Signal magazines of the era, but there are also a lot of images that most will not have seen before. These are all produced nice and big, with excellent clarity and although the colours may not be 100% accurate after all these years (I would doubt that they can be, plus printing is not a sure-fire way of reproducing accurate colours), they still impart a lot of information.
Conclusion
Really this title is a must for all Luftwaffe modellers, as it holds so much information about colour and markings, as well as being really useful for weathering etc.
Our thanks to Lela Presse for the review sample, this should be available from specialist outlets in the UK, but if you have any problems visit their website or email contact@avions-bateaux.com
