Thursday, January 16

Russian Bears & NATO forces all on the way from Pla Editions...

The crew from Pla Editions has lots of modern warfare modelling inspiration coming to us this month. New and on pre-order are these two books - a modelling book showing Russian Armour in Eastern Europe and a large pictorial featuring the soldiers, vehicles & weapons of NATO's recent Trident Juncture exercise 2018. See a little more of what is instore in these books in our preview...


Russian Bears & NATO forces all on the way from Pla Editions...

Bear In The Mud - Modelling the Russian Armor in Eastern Europe
180 pages
Softcover
All Texts In English
After the success of "Bear in the Sand", a special issue of Abrams Squad devoted to the Russian armour used in Libya, Syria and other desert conflicts, we launch the "Bear in the Mud". A book full of amazing models and scenes of Russian armour in conflicts recently happened in Eastern Europe: Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine. A complete guide of articles with “how to build” and “how to paint” tips for some of the most representative vehicles of the Russian army in the recent conflicts. Also focused on the diorama scenes. A book full of inspiration for all types of modellers, from beginners to advanced with dozens of real pictures and reference pictures from the combats and the amazing effects of the mud on the vehicles. 
Contents: 
Introduction with amazing photographies for reference.
"Bear in the Mud" T-90 by Pere Pla
"PION 2S7" by Diego Bruzzone
The stories also have real-life references attached to the stories for your own project
"T-55AM in Georgia" by Zhendong Li
 The real thing again is helpful for modellers to see
"2S9 NONA in Grozny" by Ignat Pomazkov
"Disintegration of Sanity" MTL-B & GAZ-66 by Bernard Bassous
"Even the strong get hurt" URAL by Konstantinos Tsiompris
"The Battle of Chechnya" BTR-80 by Imad Bouantoun



Trident Juncture
Author: Ralph Zwilling
+140 pictures, softcover.
80 Pages
All Texts In English
Inspirational pictures of the Trident Juncture exercise showing vehicles of the NATO FORCES in the Trident Juncture exercise 2018. 
Contents - Nationalities Featured:
2.- Foreword Ullrich Spannuth Brigadier General
4.- Introduction
14.- US MARINES
18.- NORWAY
28.- GERMANY
32.- SWEDEN
40.- FINLAND
42.- NETHERLANDS
48.- SPAIN
54.- UNITED KINGDOM
60.- DENMARK
64.- POLAND
70.- GERMANY

Both of these are now available to pre-order from the Pla Editions website...