Aircraft

36 all color pages

36 all color pages

Airframe Album No.1 Second Edition: The Heinkel He 219 'Uhu' – A Detailed Guide to The Luftwaffe's Ultimate Nightfighter by Richard A. Franks Valiant Wings return to where the Airframe Album range started back in 2012 with a second, much expanded...

Revised & UpdatedThis second title in the Airframe Album series covers the Hawker Sea Fury, and is now revised and updated to include: Builds of the AMG 1/48th T.20 and new tool Airfix 1/48th FB Mk 11 kits by Steve Evans Updated information on...

By Richard A. Franks96 pages; softcover Contents include: - A wealth of historical photographs and detail images- Detailed study of the structure, equipment and armament used- Period diagrams, data from flight manuals and spare parts catalogues-...

Airframe Album No.8: The Hornet & Sea Hornet�?? A Detailed Guide to RAF & FAA's Last Twin-Engine Fighterby Richard A. FranksISBN 978-0-9930908-0-6Eighth title in the Airframe Album series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the HPH (1/32),...

Airframe Album No.10: The Me 163 Komet�?? A Detailed To The Luftwaffe�??s Rocket-Powered Interceptorby Richard A. FranksISBN 978-0-9935345-3-9The tenth title in the Airframe Album series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the Meng (1/32nd),...

Valiant Wings' thirteenth title in the Airframe Album series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the Revell (1/32nd), Tamiya (1/48th), Dragon and even the Frog kits in 1/72nd scale. Contents include: A wealth of historical photographs...

Valiant Wings' fifteenth title in the Airframe Album series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the HK Model (1/32nd), Tamiya, new tool Airfix (1/48th), Dragon, Special Hobby and older kits in 1/72nd scale. Contents include: ...

Valiant Wings' sixteenth title in the Airframe Album series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the HpH Model (1/32nd), Monogram, Meng (1/48th), Fine Molds/Eduard, Italeri and older kits in 1/72nd scale. Contents include: - A wealth of...

Seventeenth title in the Airframe Album series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the Zoukei-Mura (1/32nd), Hasegawa (1/48th), Italeri and older kits in 1/72nd scale. Contents include: A wealth of historical photographs and detail images of...

  Eighteenth title in the Airframe Album series is an essential reference for any FAA enthusiast tackling the Trumpeter (1/48), Special Hobby and and older kits in 1/72nd scale and will be an ideal companion to our Airframe Album titles covering...

  Airframe Album No.19: The Fairey Barracuda - A Detailed Guide to the Fleet Air Arm’s First Torpedo-Bomber Monoplane by Richard A. Franks - 130 pages Nineteenth title in the Airframe Album series will be an essential reference for any FAA...

Valiant Wing's twentieth title in the Airframe Album series will be an essential reference for any Luftwaffe enthusiast and anyone tackling the Revell kit or other kits in 1/72nd and 1/48th scale. The biggest Airframe Album to date - 192+ pages! The...

Airframe Detail No.4: The Supermarine Swift �?? A Technical Guideby Richard A. FranksISBN 978-0-9930908-9-9This is Valiant Wings' first title covering a post-WW2 RAF jet. The fourth title in our Airframe Detail series covers a very important, but much...

Airframe Detail No.6: The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito �?? A Technical Guide by Richard A. Franks Sixth title in the Airframe Detail series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the HpH Model kit in 1/32nd, Dragon/Revell 1/48th, or the Hasegawa...

Airframe Detail No.7: The Henschel Hs 123 �?? A Technical Guide by Richard A. Franks Seventh title in the Airframe Detail series will be an essential companion for anyone tackling the Montex/Alley Cat 1/32nd resin kit, the new GasPatch or older...

By Richard A. FranksISBN 978-1-912932-10-8Eighth title in the Airframe Detail series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the Zoukei-Mura 1/144th, 1/72nd, 1/48th or 1/32nd scale kits, the older Dragon 1/48th example or even the venerable PM...

By Richard A. Franks ISBN 978-1-912932-10-8 Ninth title in the Airframe Detail series will be an essential companion for anyone tackling the Revell (ex-Matchbox) kit in 1/32nd scale, the Eduard/Gavia and Italeri/Hawk/Testor 1/48th examples or the...

  By Richard A. Franks ISBN 978-1-912932-21-4 Tenth title in the Airframe Detail series is an essential companion for anyone tackling the ICM example in 1/48 scale and the 1/72 scale kits from Airfix, Special Hobby, and even the old Frog toolings...

Airframe Extra No.11: The Falklands War– 2nd April to 14th June 1982 will cover the historical aspects of the battles in the air and at sea in and above The Falklands between the 2nd April and 14th June 1982. Details are as follows:•...

by Richard A. Franks Valiant Wings Publishing’s returns to where it all started ten years ago with a much expanded Second Edition of our very first title. This is the sixty-second book that we have published in our ten-year history. The Me 262 is a...

By Richard A. Franks This second book in our much acclaimed series had been out of print for over a year. With new Typhoon kits available in 1/72nd and 1/24th including the ‘Car Door’ version in the latter scale, it seemed right to make this...

40+ pages of technical information20+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams5+ pages of camouflage and markings25+ pages of model builds and modelling information200+ photographs including wartime imagesColour side views and four-views by...

This edition is totally revised and updated plus there are 3 new kit builds and all-new kit reviews. This sixth book in our much acclaimed series contains 272 pages packed with vital information that no active modeller and Mustang enthusiast should be...

40+ pages of technical information20+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams5+ pages of camouflage and markings25+ pages of model builds and modelling information200+ photographs including wartime imagesColour side views and four-views by...

by Richard A. FranksISBN: 978-1-912932-12-2The Hurricane is a very popular aircraft modelling subject and our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the bewildering choice of variants and schemes that apply to the type.This sixteenth book...

By Richard A. Franks The Bf 110 has become very popular aircraft modelling subject in recent years and our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the bewildering choices of variants and schemes that apply to the type. This seventeenth book in...

Airframe & Miniature No.18: The North American P-51D/K MustangIncluding the P-51H & XP-51F, G & J  – A Complete Guide To The Cadillac Of The Skies by Richard A. FranksISBN: 978-1-912932-23-8 The P-51 Mustang is one of the most...

Airframe & Miniature No.19: The Lockheed P-38 Lightining Including the F-4 & F-5 – A Complete Guide To The 'Fork-tailed Devil' by Richard A. Franks The P-38 Lightning is a popular aircraft type with modellers and has recently been the...

AM20: The Avro Lancaster (including the Manchester) Part 1 - Wartime Service - A Complete Guide to the RAF's Legendary Heavy Bomber by Richard A. Franks This covers the Avro Manchester and Lancaster B Mks I, II, III & VI in RAF (inc. RCAF/RAAF)...

Airframe & Miniature No.21: The Avro Lancaster (including the Lancastrian)Part Two - Post-War Service– A Complete Guide to the RAF's Legendary Heavy Bomber Part Two covers post-war variants, use by foreign air forces, civilian types, both...

By Richard A Franks The Wildcat has been a popular aircraft type with modellers and has recently been the subject of several new toolings in all scales, especially in 1/72nd and 1/48th. Our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the different...

By Richard A Franks The Junkers Ju 88 has become a very popular aircraft modelling subject in recent years and our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the bewildering choice of variants and schemes that apply to the type. This...

By Richard A Franks The Junkers Ju 88 has become very popular aircraft modelling subject in recent years and our latest book will go some way towards unpicking the bewildering choices of variants and schemes that apply to the type. This twenty-fourth...

Aviation Photo Walk Around Series Vol.2 Kawasaki C-2 Transport Aircraft in Detail Total over 200 photos B5 (184mm x 258mm) size full color printing Total 52 pages Printed in Korea

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...