Bozothenutter Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Just placed another monkey on my back, in the form of the 'adlerangriff' eduard set. I happen to have a 'flea market' Find of the Radinger & Schick A-E book which seems a good start. But what are the 'standards' in this field? (Any excuse to buy some books really...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Schilhart Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I like the Kagero books best. On the technical side, they contain very useful scale plans and drawings, which seem to be very accurate. The photo captions should be taken with a grain of salt though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafetyDad Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Ooooh, you can quickly spend a lot of money on this subject! You don't mention if you are interested in all 109 variants? As you have some coverage of A to E, then a nice complementary volume for you would be this from Prien & Rodeike covering the later marks: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Messerschmitt-Bf-109-Illustrated-Study/dp/0887404243 Roman's recommendation for Kagero is also certainly worth considering, and additionally there is also a number of AJ Press books from Poland with copious drawings, pics and notes. One volume for example is here (apologies to @109 fan on this board for pinching his pic) Plenty of others out there as well. Be careful with older references on the 109 as these can tend not to be clear or accurate about the last G and K variants - these were not well understood until Jean-Claud Mermet clarified the distinct cowl shapes for these. HTH SD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spruecutter96 Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 The SAM (Scale Aircraft Modelling) Datafiles are pretty good value. Chris. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Boak Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 I think these are Scale Aviation Modelling, but yes very good (the Lynn Ritger books). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SafetyDad Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 +3 for Chris and Graham's recommendations for the SAM volumes. Resources tend to fall into one of 3 groups here - technical, camo and markings or unit histories/deployment. Which do you favour? SD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted January 19, 2021 Author Share Posted January 19, 2021 thanks all for the pointers..... for now I'm just about the E's, but being a 'bookender' things tend to go south quite quickly...(not to mention the fact I start, but never finish.......) next stop.....finding the books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mekon Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 This is pretty good the Emil g 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 On 19/01/2021 at 1:41 PM, SafetyDad said: +3 for Chris and Graham's recommendations for the SAM volumes. Resources tend to fall into one of 3 groups here - technical, camo and markings or unit histories/deployment. Which do you favour? SD My preference is technical, up to and including what bolt goes where and why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 On 24/01/2021 at 12:09 AM, mekon said: This is pretty good the Emil g Bit hard to find it seems....did find a thicker 'early versions' by the same writer. Kagero site is terrible btw.....unable to find a thing! Same for the shop.....seriously a search on messerschmitt......0 hits......🤣🤣🤣🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted January 26, 2021 Author Share Posted January 26, 2021 What is the Haynes manual like, what plane is it based on, it says 'all marks' but generally they use what they can get access to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-21 Posted January 29, 2021 Share Posted January 29, 2021 Valiant Wings Publishing published two excellent volumes in the Airframe & Miniature Book Series by Richard Franks, No.5 the Messerschmitt Bf109 Early series V1 to E-9 including the T-series. Vol No.11 the Bf109 Late series F to K including the Z series . Both come with excellent 1/48th scale plans. Both are being re published this year with current kit builds and enlarged with more information. Contact through their website or Facebook, and in all good modeling magazines. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalkeEins Posted January 30, 2021 Share Posted January 30, 2021 On 1/18/2021 at 1:17 PM, Bozothenutter said: But what are the 'standards' in this field? (Any excuse to buy some books really...) ha.....you want to buy Bf 109 books? Try the JfV Jagdfliegerverbände fighter units series from Jochen Prien and team. There will be a volume (or several) for whichever period you're interested in.. The picture shows Part 13 which covers 1944 in the West (5 volumes) that's about 2,300 pages and a couple of thousand images... Part 4 (two volumes) covers the Battle of Britain and there are volumes on Poland, the Sitzkrieg (Phoney War), Westfeldzug (campaign in the West) etc etc http://jagdgeschwader.net 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted January 30, 2021 Author Share Posted January 30, 2021 2 hours ago, FalkeEins said: ha.....you want to buy Bf 109 books? Try the JfV Jagdfliegerverbände fighter units series from Jochen Prien and team. There will be a volume (or several) for whichever period you're interested in.. The picture shows Part 13 which covers 1944 in the West (5 volumes) that's about 2,300 pages and a couple of thousand images... Part 4 (two volumes) covers the Battle of Britain and there are volumes on Poland, the Sitzkrieg (Phoney War), Westfeldzug (campaign in the West) etc etc http://jagdgeschwader.net Oh wow!....that looks awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonthill Media Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 There is this from Fonthill Media: https://www.fonthill.media/products/messerschmitt-bf-109-the-design-and-operational-history Jay 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted April 30, 2021 Author Share Posted April 30, 2021 are the Alfred Price books worth getting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tempestfan Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 I am surprised no one has thrown in the Prien/Rodeike F/G/K book. May still be bought for around 30 € incl. shipping. Certainly better value for money than the so-called "ultimate look" books on US bombers by a certain author also published by Schiffer... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GiampieroSilvestri Posted May 4, 2021 Share Posted May 4, 2021 (edited) Take a look at these new books.They are quite expensive but from what I heard they are very good.The first is about the Versuchsflugzeuge and the second about the serial aircrafts from the Messerschmitt Bf 109 B-1 to the Bf 109 K-4. https://www.vdmedien24.de/Vogt-Messerschmitt-Bf-109-Versuchs-Erprobungstraeger-Weg-zur-Serienproduktion https://www.vdmedien24.de/Vogt-Messerschmitt-Bf-109-Einsatzmaschinen-Das-Nachschlagwerk-Luftfahrt Saluti Giampiero Edited May 4, 2021 by GiampieroSilvestri 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bozothenutter Posted May 8, 2021 Author Share Posted May 8, 2021 On 5/4/2021 at 11:07 PM, GiampieroSilvestri said: Take a look at these new books.They are quite expensive but from what I heard they are very good.The first is about the Versuchsflugzeuge and the second about the serial aircrafts from the Messerschmitt Bf 109 B-1 to the Bf 109 K-4. https://www.vdmedien24.de/Vogt-Messerschmitt-Bf-109-Versuchs-Erprobungstraeger-Weg-zur-Serienproduktion https://www.vdmedien24.de/Vogt-Messerschmitt-Bf-109-Einsatzmaschinen-Das-Nachschlagwerk-Luftfahrt Saluti Giampiero A bullet was bitten, some books were bought....😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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