Warpaint Books

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 26pages col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 Pb Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided...

AUTHOR: Paul Jackson and Peter Foster FORMAT: 26 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Lindsay Peacock FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in...

AUTHOR: Chris Thomas FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 24 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Jerry Scutts FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 60 pages; softbound

By Glenn PhillipsIt was not until October 1941 that the name Wildcat was bestowed upon it. By December 1941 production of the F4F was well in hand and the F4F was built for export or Lend-Leases, Grumman had been able to supply approximately 242 F4F-3...

AUTHOR: Hall, AFORMAT: 30pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDesigned with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both colour...

AUTHOR: Steve Hazell FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: W Harrison FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound The Fairey Swordfish must rank as one of the most famous aircraft of World War 2 if not the most famous biplane in the history of aviation. Conceived as early 1930 it was still operational when the...

AUTHOR: Jerry Scutts FORMAT: 24 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 52 pages; softbound The British Aircraft Corporation's Lightning was an unconventional aircraft it's eternal place in British aviation history was that it became the first British designed and built truly supersonic in...

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 24 pages; softbound The short Sterling was the first of the three RAF World War 2 heavy bombers, the others being the Halifax and Lancaster to see operational service and was also the first of the three to be seconded...

AUTHOR: W Harrison FORMAT: 24 pages; softbound On the 21st February 1945 the first prototype Sea Fury SR661 took to the air powered by a Centaurus X!! Driving a four bladed propeller. The first production was built at Kingston and first flew 7th...

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Ken Wixey FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Geoffrey Bussy FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound Too late to see service in World War 2 the later marks of Seafires proved invaluable to fill the gap from the disposal of the Lend-Lease American fighters it the arrival of the Hawker Sea Fury...

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 80 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Steve Hazell FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound The Gannet was originally developed to meet the FAA's dual-role anti-submarine warfare and strike requirement It was later adapted for operations as an electronic countermeasures and carrier...

AUTHOR: Jerry Scutts FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound The Do 217 was one of the primary manufactures of twin engine bombers for the Luftwaffe. The 1935 vintage flying pencil went onto give reliable early war service before the basic design was...

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Andrew Thomas FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound The elegant twin engine light bomber designed by the Bristol Aeroplane Company during the mid 1930's became one of the most significant aircraft in Royal Air Force service in the first two years...

AUTHOR: Harrison, W AFORMAT: 82pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDesigned with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Geoffrey Bussy FORMAT: 56 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in...

AUTHOR: Kev Darling FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound Another ideal reference source for both modellers and historians, this latest 'Warpaint' records the Vulcan from the 1960s to 1980, from V-bomber to low-level attack role and its niche as an...

AUTHOR: Steve Hazell FORMAT: 56 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Richard Caruana FORMAT: 48 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in...

AUTHOR: Kev Darling FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Buttler, TFORMAT: 42pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDescribes the production and service history of this planned successor of the Lancaster which arrived too late for wartime use but was operated by the RAF, RAAF and Argentina well into the fifties...

AUTHOR: Harrison, W AFORMAT: 38pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDesigned with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Steve Hazell FORMAT: 48 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Spencer, TFORMAT: 50pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDesigned with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Kev Darling FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall and Ray Sturtivant FORMAT: 24 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Steve Hazell FORMAT: 52 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 24 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Charles Stafrace FORMAT: 64 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: W Harrison FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Kev Darling FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Kev Darling FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Caruana, RFORMAT: 42pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDesigned with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Kev Darling FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: W Harrison FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound There was never anything wrong with the Albacore for a short time it acted as an important stopgap providing the Fleet Air Arm with an effective operational aircraft until the later more modern...

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 40 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 24 pages; softbound Designed with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

33 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Buttler, RFORMAT: 38pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDesigned with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 32 pages; softbound

33 pages; softbound

34pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 Pb

81 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Richard Caruana FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound

25 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound The Vickers Valiant is sometimes considered the forgotten member of the three - with the most popular Avro Vulcan. The Valiant performed superbly during an excellent service career

AUTHOR: Panopalis, TFORMAT: 46pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbDesigned with both the aircraft enthusiast and the modeller in mind, this series offers a comprehensive and accurate account of a single aircraft type within each issue. Drawings provided in both...

AUTHOR: Charles Stafrace FORMAT: 56 pages; softbound When the Wessex first entered service with the Royal Navy in 1963 the Sikorsky S-58 had already been in US service for 8 years. The enterprising Yeovil company exploited to the maximum the...

25 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Alan Hall FORMAT: 28 pages; softbound The Foland Gnat was an attempt to produce a light weight fighter. Designed by W.E.W. Petter who produced the Lysander, Whirlwind and Welkin for Westland's all of which were in one way or another...

AUTHOR: Buttler, TFORMAT: 30pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbThe Brigand completed the series of twin-engined bombers designed by Bristol, starting in pre-war days, with the Blenheim The last three of these were linked in that they had a common denominator in...

Ordered straight off the drawing board the Martin B-26 Marauder gained an early reputation as a widow maker. However this was an unfair assessment as the aircraft instructors of the time were as unsure of the new machine as were the tyro's they were...

by Charles StafraceA piston-engined combat aircraft that managed to remain in frontline US Navy service for more than thirteen years in the 1940s to the 1950s, must have had something special. Such was the F4U Corsair, which entered US Navy service in...

AUTHOR: Stafrace, CFORMAT: 28pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbThough its achievements have remained largely unsung, the Argosy gave loyal service in the United Kingdom as well as in the Near, Middle and Far East, acquitting itself with honour, even when...

AUTHOR: Kev Darling FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound

by Kev DarlingThe North American B-25 Mitchell was one of the most successful medium bombers and attack aircraft developed during WW2. Starting with the rather pedestrian NA.40 the NAA design team soon arrived at the familiar shape of the Mitchell. With...

The Harrier 'Jump-Jet' is now a legend in the history of British Aviation. The most modern version of this classic jet is still in RAF service, but the original Harriers have long since been withdrawn. This latest Warpaint looks at the now retired...

by Kev DarlingNo. 75 in the Warpaint seriesFamous for the role it played during Operation Corporate, the retaking of the Falkland Islands, the HSA/BAES Sea Harrier was suddenly withdrawn from service in 2005. This left the Royal Navy without its own...

by Charles StafraceNo. 76 in the Warpaint seriesThe emergence of the aircraft carrier after the Second World War as the key fleet unit dictated different methods on how to conduct naval air warfare. The experience gained by the US Navy in the Pacific...

by Kev Darling No. 77 in the Warpaint series Derived from the earlier Curtiss 75 Hawk the P-40 Warhawk was an attempt to update the original design for more modern warfare. Unfortunately the aircraft that first emerged was seriously underpowered,...

37 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Stafrace, C FORMAT: 74pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 Pb The Catalina was flown in the most trying conditions in all theatres of war, from the Arctic by the Soviets and the US Coast Guard, to the tropics by the US Navy and RAAF. Mainly used by the US Navy...

The Saab J35 Draken was one of the best of the first generation of highly supersonic fighters to be developed and put into production during the 1950s. It was a remarkable achievement in many respects, not least because Sweden was one of the smallest...

AUTHOR: Darling, KFORMAT: 34pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 PbWhen the late Richard Burton finally reveals the traitor at the end of 'Where Eagles Dare' the gallant escapees continue their journey aboard a captured Junkers Ju52. While the great Burton is no...

AUTHOR: Balch, A FORMAT: pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 Pb Stemming from a Percival design and produced by Hunting Aircraft at Luton, the Jet Provost has been one of those unsung heroes that have often been neglected in publishing circles, being pushed aside in...

British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, said in the House of Commons on 20 August, 1940 - ....'on no part of the RAF does the weight of war fall more heavily than on the daylight bomber'.... . A reflection of what happened in the Low Countries during...

Even before Pearl Harbor the US Navy realised that it would be hard for its existing fighters, the F2A Buffalo and F4F Wildcat, to deal with Japan's shipboard fighters, especially the A6M Zero.The situation was such that in June 1941 the US Navy placed...

The Supermarine Scimitar was the first swept-wing, twin-engined, single-seat jet aircraft to serve with the Royal Navy and it was also the last all-new fighter type to be designed and built by Supermarine.It evolved from a straight wing design called the...

Ian WhiteCreated on the drawing boards of the Vickers (Aviation) Company by Barnes Wallis using the geodetic form of construction he devised for Britain�?s R.100 airship, the Wellesley was designed to fulfil an Air Ministry specification for a reliable,...

by Charles StafraceWithout doubt the Grumman Avenger was the most successful torpedo-bomber of the Second World War, and certainly one of the wartime aircraft that could most sustain punishment and yet make it back to base. Built by both Grumman under...

by Adrian BalchThe Lockheed T-33A was the two-seat trainer development of the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, which was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Air Force, and saw extensive combat in Korea with the USAF as the F-80. As...

by Tony ButlerThe Lancaster is one of the most famous and charismatic military aircraft of all time and in World War II was responsible for several spectacular RAF operations. Indeed it was the most successful RAF bomber during the conflict and Tony...

65 pages

by Vladimir TrendafilovskiMikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 �?Fishbed�?The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21, also known by its NATO codename �?Fishbed�?, is undoubtedly a phenomenon in the field of military aviation - designed over 50 years ago, it remains in service even...

by Charles StafraceThe HU-16 Albatross was the last important amphibian flown by the United States military services. It also had the distinction of becoming the most used amphibian by different air forces around the world, no less than 21 air arms...

By Kev DarlingIt seems strange that the aircraft we recognise today as the Messerschmitt Me 262 nearly did not happen. Fortunately a need to change the selected engine and reconfigure the aircraft to maintain a viable centre of gravity created that...

41 pages

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by Charles StafraceThe North American Vigilante was an aircraft of extraordinary performance, and introduced aerodynamic, technological and electronic features that were much ahead of their time, and which were to become standard in combat aircraft that...

49 pages

By Tony Butler - AMRAesMCDONNELL F3H DEMONThe McDonnell F3H Demon naval fighter is chiefly remembered for the controversial delays and troubles suffered by its jet engine powerplants. The original J40 was a failure and brought the end of the original...

Fraught with engine and aerodynamic teething problems that resulted in its missing the Korean War for which it was intended, the F-84F Thunderstreak, initially seen as languishing in the shadow of the more well-known and proven F-86 Sabre, matured to...