Kagero Eastern Front Vol.1 Camouflage & Decals 9788366673205

[Mike]

Eastern Front Vol.1 Camouflage & Decals

ISBN: 9788366673205

Kagero via Casemate UK

 

 

This is the first of a new armour series from Kagero Publishing that consists profiles of various armour and softskins from the Eastern Front during WWII, drawing from both German and Russian forces.  It is 40 pages and is in a card bound portrait format, and it is rammed with profiles, as you’d expect.  In addition you get a set of decals in the three major armour scales of 1:72, 1:48 and 1:35, with tons of numbers in black and white, a bunch of crosses in various styles, some bird of prey motifs, and the name Rudy, which is from a popular fictional story.

 

 

 

 

The quality of the profiles is up to Kagero’s usual standards, and includes various scrap diagrams where additional detail is necessary on the rear of the vehicle or on the front etc.  Each profile has a caption in English and Polish, giving some information about the subject, inasmuch as there is available to the researchers and artists.  At the front of the book is a single page that is split between an introduction to the series, and in the bottom half of the page is a large table that suggests a colour palette for the German vehicles in FS codes, Humbrol, Gunze, Pactra, Testors, Extracolor and Tamiya paint codes.

 

 

 

Conclusion

This is a niche series that will doubtless appeal to those that enjoy looking at and studying profiles of vehicles, and the decals that are included, whilst generic for the most part also include the Rudy decals (as seen above) that will appeal to an Eastern European market where the series is more well-known.

 

Recommended.

 

 

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