Aircraft

The IA-58 Pucará was an Argentinean ground-attack and COIN aircraft that gained international fame for its participation in the Falklands War of 1982. This title features 62 pages, with over 150 high quality photographs including rarely seen...

Paperback, 71 pages with high-quality, full-colour photos and colour profiles The F-16 is one of the most successful and mass-produced modern US military aircraft in service. More than 4,600 units in numerous variants have been delivered, and it is...

Paperback, 68 pages with high-quality full-colour photographs and colour profiles. Multilingual book (English, Spanish, German) This comprehensive visual guide of the MiG-17F shows all the internal and exterior details of the MiG-17F through a...

1/144 is arguably the aircraft scales that has seen more growth in recent times, attracting a large number of followers, especially due to the high quality detail currently achieved by the manufacturers. This scale has many advantages, but its...

In this book, you will discover all the keys to assemble, detail, paint, and weather any 1/144th guided by master modellers through detailed step-by-step tutorials Softcover book, 164 pages plus covers with high-quality full colour photographs The 1/144...

Softcover, 64 pages with high-quality full-colour photos. This book is Multilingual: English, Spanish, Italian & German. This Solution Book is a complete 64-page guide with step-by-step tutorials in four languages (English, Spanish, Italian, and...

SOLUTION BOOK How to Paint Early WWII Luftwaffe Aircraft is a complete 70-page guide that explains step-by-step how to paint any Luftwaffe aircraft with camouflage from the beginning of World War II until 1941. This includes iconic aircraft such as the...

Softcover, 71 pages with high-quality full-color photos and 6 color profiles Throughout history, many aircraft types have retained the natural metal finish of their construction, either partially or across their entire surface, while many others have...

Softcover, 66 pages with high-quality full-color photos The Pacific theatre of the Second World War is where carrier aviation, both Japanese and American, played the most significant role. From Pearl Harbor to the end of the war, battles involving...

Soft cover, 104 pages with high-quality full-color photos and profiles. This book is Multilingual: English, Spanish, French & German. At the end of 1944, the Luftwaffe changed the RLM regulations for camouflage colors mainly due to a lack of...

This Volume covers the Luftwaffe fighter force on the eve of World War Two. Here are the fighter units that took part and their aircraft as well as details of events in the West and the "Sitzkrieg". Included is coverage of the Kunstflugstaffel...

By Dana Bell 72 pages Softbound

By Dana Bell72 pagesLandscape formatSoftbound

The first in the series DACO's "Uncovering the..." books, introduces the Lockheed Martin F-16 A/B pre-MLU, F-16 A/B MLU and F-16 C/D Block 40. Never before had there been such a detailed book about the F-16 with more than 500 colour photos and that...

By Danny Coremans Covers all the versions of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, till the last nut, including the last ever pictures of their recent carrier tour in the Gulf (which ended on March 10 with the arrival at their homebase NAS Oceana). Almost...

By Danny Coremans 176 all color pages plus 2 additional large foldouts ( 1 meter / 40" long) with completely revised (and very accurate) 1/72nd & 1/48th scale drawings and the cockpit lay-out diagrams of the F-4B/N and F-4J/S by Willy Peeters Softbound...

By Danny Coremans & Peter Gordts Around 875 (all colour) detailed photos are given of various Starfighters still located all around Europe, some ready to be scrapped, others being restorated with passion and several still in prestine condition. This...

English Electric Lightning F.1, F.1A, F.2, F.2A, F.3, F.6, F.53 and T.5 are completely uncovered By Danny Coremans & Peter Gordts Almost 900 (all colour) photos are given of the Lightnings This book is 21 x 24 cm (5.33 inch x 9.5 inch) 160...

Originally it was scheduled to do one "massive" book of all the F-15 variants, but during the selection of the thousands of detailed (Strike) Eagle pictures it turned out we had too many usable pictures to place them in just one book. And to avoid the...

All-color 8"x9" soft-bound 80-pages Many detailed photos

By Danny Coremans 84 all color pages Nearly 500 detailed photos (all color) Softbound Sample pages:

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages Features of Detail & Scale's newest publication, F9F Cougar in Detail & Scale -- Revised Edition include: F9F Cougar in Detail & Scale ƒ?? Revised Edition continues the Detail & Scale Series focus...

  By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages About the Book: The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt was one of the most heralded and recognizable fighters of World War II. Built in larger numbers than any other American fighter aircraft in...

By Bert Kinzey and Haagen Klaus; softbound; 104 pages Features of Detail & Scaleƒ??s F/A-18E & F/A-18F Super in Detail & Scale (also Includes the EA-18G Growler): the developmental history of the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, which emerged from a...

By Bert Kinsey, Haagen Klause and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages P-51 Mustang in Detail & Scale, Part 1 is the first in a three-volume series from Detail & Scale Aviation Publications that covers the North American P-51 Mustang, one of the...

  By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages About the Book: FJ Fury in Detail & Scale, Part 1: Prototypes Through FJ-3 Variants is the first of two books that cover North American Aviation’s iconic early jet fighter that was...

  The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is considered by many to be the most iconic naval fighter aircraft of the latter half of the twentieth century. Colors & Markings of the F-14 Tomcat, Part 1: Atlantic Fleet and Reserve Squadrons is a comprehensive look...

  By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages About the Book:FJ Fury in Detail & Scale, Part 2: FJ-4 and FJ-4B Variants completes Detail & Scale’s two-book treatment of North American’s iconic early jet fighter flown...

  122 pages, 246 color photos Colors & Markings of The F-14 Tomcat, Part 3: Prototypes, Test, Evaluation, and Adversary Aircraft is a comprehensive look at the paint schemes and unit markings used on the Grumman prototypes and by non-fleet...

Book Features: The book begins with a general description of the three major paint schemes applied to the Cougar during its history. The overall Gloss Sea Blue scheme had been in place since 1944 for Navy fighters, and for all carrier-based aircraft...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 114 pages Detail & Scale presents U. S. Navy and Marine Carrier-Based Aircraft of World War II, a unique look at all of the American carrier-based fighters, scout/dive bombers, and torpedo bombers of...

In 2016, Detail & Scale published F2H Banshee in Detail & Scale, Part 1: Prototypes Through F2H-2 Variants. That book covered the early Banshee variants that, alongside Grumman F9F Panthers, were among the first jet fighters to serve in large...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 108 pages F-102 Delta Dagger in Detail & Scale continues the established and well known tradition of the Detail & Scale Series of publications with the most detailed look at the U. S. Air Force‹¨«??s...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 104 pages About the Book:F-100 Super Sabre in Detail & Scale is the eleventh volume of the expanded Detail & Scale Series of military aviation publications. The F-100 Super Sabre is significant in the...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages Features of Detail & Scale�??s first digital publication on the McDonnell F3H Demon include: - A complete Developmental History of the aircraft including how it was designed to meet...

By Haagan Klaus and Bert Kinsey; softbound; 102 pages Lockheed’s P-38 Lightning was a unique aircraft, even on the drawing board. When the prototype XP-38 first flew in January 1939, it was the fastest fighter plane of its day. It also possessed...

  By Haagan Klaus and Bert Kinsey; softbound; 102 pages About the Book: The Germans called it Der Gabelschwanz Teuful or “The Forked-tailed Devil.” The Japanese referred to it as two planes with one pilot. But whatever it was likened...

127 pages.  By Rock Roszak   Colors & Markings of the F-106 Delta Dart, is Volume 8 in the Colors & Markings Series. The Convair F-106 Delta Dart has been known by several titles, including “The Ultimate Interceptor” and...

By Bert Kinzey and Chris Sakal; softbound; 104 pages About the Book: F6F Hellcat in Detail & Scale is the tenth volume of the expanded Detail & Scale Series of military aviation and modeling books. The Grumman Hellcat is one of the most...

By Bert Kinsey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages P-51 Mustang in Detail & Scale, Part 3, is the final book in a trilogy of titles covering the P-51 Mustang in the Detail & Scale Series of books. Part 1 provided a look at the early...

  The Grumman F-14 Tomcat was one of the most iconic naval fighter aircraft of the latter half of the twentieth century. Colors & Markings of the F-14 Tomcat, Part 2: Pacific Fleet and Reserve Squadrons is a comprehensive look at the paint...

127 pages.  By Mike Heideman and Rock Roszak   This publication has its roots in the late 1980s when Detail & Scale originally published Colors & Markings of the A-7E Corsair II in 1988 as the ninth volume in the original Colors &...

About the Book:Jet Fighters of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps is a two-book series that describes the entire history of American Naval jet fighters, from the very beginning when many thought that the onset of military jets would mean the end of naval...

  By Bert Kinzey andRock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages, 290 photos (163 in color), 12 illustrations, 6 color profiles About the Book: Detail & Scale originally released B-24 Liberator in Detail & Scale in 2000. In the twenty-three years that...

Colors & Markings of the F-102 Delta Dagger is the second book in Detail & Scale‹¨«??s Digital Colors & Markings Series covering iconic military aircraft of the 20th Century. Between 1984 and 1994, Detail & Scale produced 24 titles in our Colors &...

  By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 113 pages This fourth volume in Detail & Scale’s look at U. S. Navy and Marine Corps carrier-based aircraft focuses on the attack aircraft types that came into being as World War II came to an...

126 pages.  By Rock Roszak & Miek Heideman Colors & Markings of the A-6 Intruder in U. S. Marine Corps Service and Navy Test & Evaluation Squadrons, is Volume 7 in the Colors & Markings Series. It completes Detail &...

  By Haagen Klaus; softbound; 102 pages The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an iconic aircraft. Its historical significance, celebrity, distinctive appearance, and combat record set the Tomcat apart from many of its contemporaries. The U. S. Navy operated...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 108 pages Features of Detail & Scale's newest publication, F-8 & RF-8 Crusader in Detail & Scale include: A detailed developmental and operational history of the Crusader, a jet fighter that achieved a...

By Bert Kinsey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages Designed under great secrecy and in considerable haste by a team led by Clarence L. “Kelly” Johnson during World War II, Lockheed’s P-80 Shooting Star will forever hold a significant...

About the Book:Jet Fighters of the U. S. Navy and Marine Corps is a two-book series that describes the entire history of American Naval jet fighters, from the very beginning when many thought that the onset of military jets would mean the end of naval...

As its title implies, F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter – An Illustrated Developmental History, covers the design and testing of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Stealth Fighter, one of the most revolutionary military aircraft in history. The Nighthawk...

By Bert Kinsey, Haagen Klause and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages The P-51 Mustang was one of only a very few military aircraft that could be conclusively called a “war-winning design.” It was a truly remarkable aircraft design that...

  By Bert Kinzey,Rock Roszak & Jim Rotramel; softbound; 102 pages The Republic F-105 Thunderchief is one of the most recognizable combat aircraft of the 20th century. Designed as a supersonic fighter-bomber with the ability to deliver both...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 102 pages About the Book: The Digital Detail & Scale Series continues with the newest title, SBD Dauntless in Detail & Scale, covering the development, history, and details of one of the few U. S...

  Colors & Markings of the A-6 Intruder in U. S. Navy Attack Squadron Service, Volume Six in the Colors & Markings Series, provides a rich, visual history of one of the most iconic warplanes to every fly with the United States Navy. From...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 103 pages F2H Banshee in Detail & Scale, Part 1: Prototypes through F2H-2 Variants include: - A developmental history of the F2H Banshee, from its beginnings as a follow-on to McDonnell�??s FH-1...

By Bert Kinzey and Rock Roszak; softbound; 108 pages Features of Detail & Scale's newest publication, F4F & FM Wildcat in Detail & Scale include: A detailed developmental and operational history of the Wildcat, and follow that with an...

90 pages Softbound With this book, everything started. Upon buying a 1/48 scale Jaguar, I wanted to add some detail to the kit and started looking for a book that shows every detail of the impressive low-level flying jet. Not finding what I was...

106 pages Softbound Dassault has a long tradition in developing delta winged fighter jets and one of the most impressive ones is the Mirage 2000. This 108 page book shows the jet both in action and in detail. While a lot of the photographs were made...

114 pages Softbound The Fulcrum dazzled airshow spectators in the early 1990s when they were brought from the recently fallen iron curtain. This impressive twin-engined fighter jet is shown in never before seen detail in this book, from fuselage to...

114 pages Softbound This book is the first one – and still the only one to our knowledge – that show the Typhoon in so much detail, including the stealthy air intakes, the cockpit and the jet in maintenance. Since its development, the...

82 pages Softbound Although this book counts just 84 pages, it is filled to the rim with never before seen detail photographs of the Swedish double delta fighter jet. For this book, we photographed the jets of the Swedish Air Force Historic Flight in...

82 pages Softbound This 84 page book brings every detail of the jet, while not forgetting some impressive action shots, both on the ground and in the air. Included are Mirages from France, Spain, Libya, Qatar and South Africa, as well as those...

138 pages Softbound This book consists of 2 parts: The British-built Harrier GR.7 and GR.9 and the American built Harrier Its, with the Night Attack harrier and the radar-equipped version of the hover jet. This 140-page book shows the many differences...

114 pages Softbound When in 2020 we had the opportunity to make all the photos we wanted to make a book on the Russian Mach 3 MiG-31 Foxhound, we couldn’t believe our luck. No-one had been this close to the massive jet before. And an impressive...

> 114 pages Softbound The Mirage III is one of the oldest jets we have have written a book about, but it is a truly iconic jet. This book shows every part of the Mirage IIIC, E, B, RS but also the Belgian Mirage 5, the 5F and even the Venezuelan...

> 90 pages Softbound For more than 50 years, the SIAI-Marchetti has been the elementary trainer for thousands of you pilots. This Italian built trainer is agile, strong, maneuverable and easy to maintain. This book shows every angle of it, ideal to...

114 pages Softbound Close air support aircraft are very important in modern warfare, but because they fly at very low altitudes, are also vulnerable for ground fire. This is why the Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot, which was designed for this role, is equipped...

114 pages Softbound The Alpha Jet is a jet trainer that doesn’t seem to ago at all, even though it flew for the first time 5 decades ago. For this book, we went into the maintenance hangars at Beauvechain Air Base in Belgium and visited the...

138 pages Softbound The brand new A400M is the new European transport aircraft that in many air forces has taken over from the C-130 Hercules. While it is much bigger and faster than the C-130, it is still quite smaler in size compared to the C-17. In...

138 pages Softbound This book brings a complete portrait of the EA-6B Prowler, as it was in use with the US Navy and US Marines. This book shows the 4-seat electronic, carrier-based jet from every angle and in close detail. And there are a lot of...

114 pages Softbound Very few have been released on the Transall, let alone one that brings a walk-around type of photographs, allowing modelers to detail their kits. So, with our 22nd book, we did just that. In 116 pages, the details of the C-160 are...

138 pages Softbound The Fitter is one of the few fighter jets that was equipped with variable sweep-wings – the Su-22 is the export version of the Russian Su-17 and was in use with air forces of mainly eastern European countries, like Poland,...

114 pages Softbound This is the first book in the series dedicated to a helicopter. This book is built up into two parts: the first one shows the Belgian A109 demo team in close up during their airshow routine, preparations, and encounters with the...

178 pages Softbound This iconic fighter jet needed some 180 pages to be shown in every detail. Designed by the aviation legend Kelly Johnson, the Starfighter was one of the first mass production jets capable of operating at speeds of up to Mach 2. The...

194 pages Softbound The Strike Eagle evolved from the F-15 Eagle and is one of the most used all-round fighter jets in the inventory of the US Air Force. The two-seat jet is capable of taking a huge weapons load at high speed to difficult to reach...

178 pages Softbound Awesome, awesome, awesome. There is no other way to describe the B-1B Lancer. Especially when it is taking off with the blue flames of the afterburner lighting up the sky or when it flies close to the speed of sound at just a few...

138 pages Softbound Only months before the war in Ukraine broke out, we were able to photograph the Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback in Russia. While working on the book, the war was in its first year and in full swing. During this period, over 20 of the type...

178 pages Softbound The Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II is one of the oddest looking fighter jets operating today, but loves by the men on the ground as a close air support asset. Capable of turning in a very tight spot, packed with weapons and well...

114 pages Softbound The Swedish Saab Draken was the first jet in the world to perform the famous “Cobra”, a maneuver that flipped the jet vertically, made it stall and then recover by pushing the nose steeply downwards, long before the...

146 pages Softbound Developped to replace the aging A-4 Skyhawk within the US Navy, the Corsair II was a compact fighter jet, capable of carrying a huge weapons load. This books shows not only the A-7E, the most used version of the Corsair II, but...

114 pages Softbound This book was introduced exactly 50 years after the first flight of the BAE Systems Hawk and is probably the first one to show it in this close detail. The book holds one of the biggest maintenance chapters we’ve ever done,...

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178 pages Softbound For decades, the Sea King has operated in air forces around the world, in a variety of roles: from submarine hunter and Search and Rescue helicopter to troop transport and Airborne Early Warning asset. This 180 page book shows the...

138 pages Softbound The Blackburn Buccaneer is one of those typical British aircraft designs that has proven itself more versatile and effective than originally intended. While it was extremely stable when flying at high speeds and very low level for...

218 pages Softbound DH-037 is the most extensive book we have done so far, with 220 pages. And this book will help me with the 16 kits I have of the Tomcat in my stash in different scales. Now, all I need is the time and currage to build them! Tomcat...

114 pages Softbound The newest book in our Duke Hawkins series is a 116 page book on the Dassault Super Etendard. The compact jet was for 4 decades the backbone of the French Navy on its aircraft carriers. This book offers you a very close look at the...

82 pages Softbound This is the oldest jet we have had in our series: a popular first generation jet of which nearly 3500 were built and flown with 12 countries. The Thunderstreak was the first fighter-bomber equipped with swept wings and was flown for...

138 pages Softbound DH-040 is 140 pages filled with details and action on the last British-built supersonic interceptor. Two engines stacked one on top of the other, swept wings, getting to a high altitude in the blink of an eye!

146 pages Softbound This book brings an extensive portrait of the Seahawk helicopter, which is in use with the US Navy and other military forces around the world. In over 330 photos, the MH-60 Romeo and Sierra are shown in action and close detail...

82 pages Softbound This 84 page book brings an extensive portrait of the British first generation fighter jet, the Gloster Meteor F.8 and its fighter-reconnaissance version FR.9. The aircraft, which origins go back to 1943, was introduced after the...

146 pages Softbound The NH90 helicopter, built by NH Industries, is a medium sized, European built military helicopter that was ordered by 14 different air arms. While the introduction of the type has not been without its problems, today 12 of them...

146 pages Softbound This book includes a lot of action photography, as well as images of every possible detail of the aircraft, including the cockpit, fuselage, wing fold, landing gear, avionics bay, vertical tail fold and more. The aircraft,...

114 pages Softbound Is there a sound more beautiful than the Merlin engine of a Spitfire when it flies by full throttle? This is one of the most iconic aircraft of the Second World War and the first book in our Classic series. In 116 pages, we bring...

114 pages Softbound Thousands of pilots made their first flight in military aviation in the T-6. During and long after the Second World War, the Harvard or Texan was in service with air forces around the world. A book showing every detail of this...

> 114 pages Softbound While the Supermarine Spitfire took most of the spotlights during the Battle of Britain, the Hawker Hurricane did much of the heavy work. This third book in the Classic series shows the WW2 fighter aircraft in very close detail...

> 114 pages Softbound The 4th book in our Classic series is on one of the fastest aircraft built during World War 2: the De Havilland Mosquito. This all-rounder, mostly built out of wood, was equipped with a pair of Merlin engines. The combination...

> 114 pages Softbound A 116-page book on the iconic North American P-51D Mustang, with photos from airworthy Mustangs from all over the world. No part of the Mustang is overlooked in this book, including the cockpit, wings, landing gear, fuselage...

138 pages Softbound Over 250 photos in 140 pages; in this book we show you the B-25 Mitchell in close detail. We show you the entire fuselage, both on the outside and inside. Every angle of the cockpit, turret, glass nose, aft gunners position and...