English
Softcover
RRP: US$49.99/ €29,95
Available directly from:
www.mrblackpublications.com - The
book will be also available through their distributors in the next few days.
We thought we would relay the latest info from Stelios the
head man at Mr Black Productions about his new book that sets the scene long
before the stars take their place on the stage, the first in a series of books
on this subject we hope – Scale Model
Handbook, Diorama Modelling
Preface…
Welcome to the first book about modelling dioramas in Mr
Black Publications’ series of Scale Model Handbooks. We promised in our first
issue that our publications would eventually cover a greater variety of
military modelling themes and now our first special issue dedicated to various
types of dioramas has come to fruition!
While gathering material for such a special book we soon
realized that it wouldn’t be possible to cover everything we wanted to in our
standard 52-page format, so a 100-page book became inevitable to provide more
coverage and satisfy the requirements of our readers. Different approaches,
techniques and step-by-step instructions are covered in more than 400
photographs and associated texts to inspire you, the reader, to make your own
creations.
It took us about 18 months of intensive work to gather our
material, since we wanted to cover many historical periods, such as Napoleonic,
15th century, WWI, WWII and not forgetting civilian based scenes, as well as
considering the many different and popular scales of 1/35 (50mm) and 1/32
(54mm) to the larger 1/24 (75mm) and 1/16 (120mm) scale dioramas, to satisfy
our readers’ interests. Our aim was to make this book a necessary and useful
handbook for modellers everywhere.
We would like to thank those who contributed to this book,
as we couldn’t have produced it without them. Antonio Fdez (“Piqui”), Jesus
Gamarra, Javier Gonzalez (“Arsies”), Theodoros Kelesidis, Noel Petroni, Sergey
Popovichenko, Costas Rodopoulos, Kazufumi Tomori, Alex Varela (“Iguazzu”), and
Dave Youngquist… You are all stars!
Special thanks must go to Luca Marchetti and Pietro Balloni
from Pegaso Models who have been there for us right from the start; Alex
Vallejo (Vallejo Acrylics), Alexey Lucanev (Irbis Miniatures) and John Page
(Sphere Products) whose support is highly appreciated. Last, but not least, we
would like to thank Ken Jones for his valuable help in editing texts, his
advice and lending a unique final touch to all our publications.
It is with much excitement and satisfaction that we present
you with this first book in our new “Diorama Modelling Series” - it’s one in
which we are placing great hope towards it being a new and successful regular
edition to our series of modelling books!
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72 Kings of the Road - 54mm (1/32)
80 Making Pine Trees - 50mm(1/35) /54mm(1/32)
88 Near Moscow, December 1941 - 50mm(1/35)/ 54mm(1/32)
Contributors
Antonio Fdez (Piqui) • Jesus Gamarra • Javier Gonzalez
(Arsies) • Theodoros Kelesidis • Noel Petroni • Sergey Popovichenko • Costas
Rodopoulos Kazufumi Tomori • Alex Varela (Iguazzu) • Dave Youngquist
For more information on
their distributors, dealers and shops please visit www.mrblackpublications.com