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Heinkel He.219 Uhu (volume 1) Kagero Monographs 3D Edition The He.219 has come to the fore again with the release of both the Revell kit in 1:32 reviewed here, and the more detailed masterpiece from Japanese company Zukeimura, also in 1:32, which you can see [url="http://www.zoukeimura.co.jp/en/sentiment/oyajiblog_038.html"here. Kagero have wasted no time in producing this addition to their Monographs range, making in number 49, and you'll note that this is also Volume 1, so there is more to come. It is a striking perfect-bound book in portrait format, extending to 92 pages, with a set of detailed 1:48 plans hidden in A2 size (?) away in the middle. The first section describes the aircraft, and details the various options and variants that were both proposed and went into production. The text is accompanied by some amazingly detailed photos, which have been enhanced as much as possible to extract every little bit from them. How they survived the war, is anyone's guess, but it's good that they did, as they will be a great help to the super-detailer and anyone that just likes to get into the guts of the machine. Eight pages of line-drawn profiles of the variants in 1:72 scale gives useful differences between the different airframes, and this is followed by 29 pages of highly detailed and realistic three-dimensional renderings of the cockpit parts, as if they were parts of an exploded diagram. Various aspects of the instrumentation are depicted, as are the crew seats, side-walls, gun-sights and the flip-down armoured panel in the nose section. This is all good stuff for the modeller, both for detailing and for painting. The final section of thirteen pages is devoted to some rather crisp detailed pictures of the A-2 variant Werknummer 290202 that currently resides in the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington D.C. in the USA. This airframe was taken as a war prize after WWII, and is currently undergoing restoration, with the fuselage and engine nacelles more-or-less complete, and the wings a work in progress. Conclusion Anyone that has read my previous reviews of Kagero titles will know that I'm a fan, and this tome does nothing to dent that. I'm now waiting on the edge of my seat for volume II! Highly recommended. Review sample courtesy of