Warpaint Books

By Andy Evans 57 pages; softbound The US Navy's experience in the Korean War showed the need for a new long-range strike aircraft with high subsonic performance at very low altitude that could...

By Adrian M Balch 45 pages; softbound The Pembroke originated as a development of an idea sponsored by Lord Brabazon towards the end of World War II, when he chaired a committee whose brief was to...

By David Grummitt; 84 pages There is no doubt, almost eighty years after the end of World War II, that the tanks and other armoured vehicles developed and employed by Nazi Germany from 1933 until...

By Jakub Fojtik 85 pages; softbound This latest authoritative work of reference to join the Warpaint series charts the rise of the helicopter in both military and civilian use throughout the vast...

By Kev Darling 117 pages; softbound Having launched the signature bomber for use in the European Theatre, Boeing embarked on a voyage into the unknown. Bringing together numerous untried...

By David Grummitt; 84 pages Since the 1930s the armed forces of Japan have deployed a wide range of armoured fighting vehicles from diminutive tankettes to modern, state-of-the-art Main Battle Tanks...

By Andy Evans 57 pages; softbound During the 1960s, Dassault commenced development of what would be-come the Mirage F1 as a private venture, alongside the larger Mirage F2. Work on the F1 eventually...

By Adrian Balch 53 pages; softbound The Vickers VC.1 Viking was a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited at...

By Mike Verier 104 pages * £28.00 * over 20 pages Colour Profiles * 250 Images *detailed plans* The full story of the first true Multi-Role Combat Aircraft, the OV-10 Bronco, still flying...

By Adrian Balch54 pages The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is a single-engine high-wing pro-peller-driven short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft developed and manu-factured by de Havilland...

By Andy Evans50 pages Now you see it now you don't! The F-117's retirement may have seemed premature, but has it really gone? The informative text traces the story of this remarkable aircraft from...

62 pages; softbound by Des Brennan Few military exploits have captured the public's imagination as much as the famous 'Dambusters' raid on the night of 16 - 17 May 1943. To mark the 80th anniversary...

By Kev Darling104 pages 20 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 350 many never seen before images The Douglas SBD Dauntless earned itself a reputation as a great dive bomber even though its...

By William Harrison52 pages 10 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 150 many never seen before images With more than 8,750 built the Oxford was a well thought-out design that was based on...

By Adrian Balch48 pages 10 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 150 many never seen before images The de Havilland Dragon Rapide has been a much-loved twin-engined bi-plane icon of the 1930s...

By Jakub Fojtík72 pages 12 pages of Colour Profilesdetailed plansOver 150 many never seen before images The Aero L-29 Delfin was Czechoslovakia's first domestically-designed and constructed...

Author Adrian M. Balch 92 pages 16 pages of Colour Profiles 4 pages detailed plans Over 150 many never seen before images When the prototype Douglas DC-3 - actually a DST Douglas Sleeper Transport...

Author Kev Darling93 pages16 pages of Colour Profiles4 pages detailed plans Over 150 many never seen before images The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress has become an icon although it was the result of a...

Author Adrian M Balch64 pages15 pages of Colour ProfilesOver 150 many never seen before images The Auster In British Military & foreign air arm service Stemming from the original American...

Author Nikolay Jakubovich68 pagesPLUS 8 pages of A2 page plans8 pages of Colour ProfilesNever seen before ImagesNikolay Yakubovich documents fully this milestone in Soviet aviation history. The...

NATO Armour from the End of the Cold War to TodayEdited by David Grummitt; 82 pages The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 should have signalled a lasting 'peace...

Warpaint Special no 3Written and Illustrated by Richard J Caruana Born during the dark days of World War 2, the Mosquito was the result of revolutionary thinking that started way back in 1936...

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105 pages; softbound Author superb and respected Kev DarlingOver 200 images some never seen before16 pages of Colour Profiles2 page scale Plans4 pages of detailed Aircraft used by various units North...

Author: Nikolay Yakubovich By the time Operation Barbarossa unfolded on 22 June 1941 some 981 MiG-3s were in service with the Soviet Air Forces (VVS), the Soviet Air Defence Forces (PVO) and Soviet...

Author: Matthew Willis One of the great unsung keystones in the development of aerial combat, the Bristol Scout was originally designed as a racing aircraft. It was used by the RNAS and the RFC...

70 pages; softbound AUTHOR: Evans, A FORMAT: 70pp col/Bw/dwgs 297x210 Pb Produced by 'Scale Aircraft Modelling', this book is a complete guide to the Jaguar including an operational history,...

Author: David Grummitt Warpaint Armour is an exciting new series by Guideline License Publications. Each title will cover an important conflict or period, looking at the tanks and other armoured...

68 pages; softbound Cessna's Bird Dog was designed and built to serve in what some might regard as the unglamorous field of Army co-operation at a time when attention was more often focused on a...

An exciting new 44 page photographic title from Guidelines Publications �?Post War Panzers�� compiled by a name familiar to many, Frazer Grey.This title contains many quality photographs (some in...

Author: Jan Polc New from Guideline is this innovative collection of artworks and scale drawings culled from the famous Warpaint series and collected in a single volume presenting eight iconic...

62 pages; softbound by Colin Ovens Interceptor Force is the companion volume to Colin Oven's "Strategic Force", also published by Guideline, and covers a similar time period, from 1950 until the...

90 pages; softbound by Colin Ovens Consider the title "Royal Air Force Transport Command"... to many readers this may prompt images of huge formations of Dakotas, disgorging paratroops over...

de Havilland (Canada) DHC-1 CHIPMUNK - by Adrian M BalchThe Chipmunk is probably the most famous and well-known post-war piston-engined basic training aircraft after the Tiger Moth, for which it was...

Author: Ian White Born out of a United States Navy (USN) requirement for a carrier-based, tactical, nuclear strike aircraft and designed under the supervision of the Douglas Aircraft Company's...

Author: Nikolay Yakubovich Long overdue in the Warpaint range, the MiG-15 is one of the most important and influential aircraft to come out of the early years of the Cold War and was to see...

Author: Ken Darling When the US Navy decided to enter the jet age it was no surprise that it turned to Grumman for its first carrier borne jet fighter bomber with a recon option. The first...

Author: Kev Darling Like most nations America likes to celebrate its first's. Strangely enough this didn't seem to apply to the first jet bomber in USAF service, the North American B-45 Tornado...

Author: Tony Buttler The Douglas F4D Skyray (always known as the 'Ford' because of its designation) was intended to be the US Navy's first supersonic fighter, though in fact it was really a...

Author: William Harrison The first RAF front line fighter to achieve more than 200 mph was the Hawker Fury, and its naval counterpart the Hawker Nimrod. These two attractive fighters came from...

By Tony Buttler The Armstrong Whitworth Albemarle is something of an 'odd man out' in the list of British World War Two military aircraft. It was manufactured entirely in a special factory as...

by Des Brennan The Tornado F.3 spent just over twenty-three years in frontline operational service with the Royal Air Force compared to a similar period for air-defence Phantoms, and twenty-eight...

by Charles Stafrace There was a little ghost like about the McDonnell F-4 Phantom 11. It's huge bulk, a hunched shape that exuded a wrestler's strength, the upward slant of it's wingtips...

By Adrian M BalchThe 1957 Defence Review and subsequent British aircraft industry overhaul resulted in all the smaller helicopter companies - Bristol, Fairey and Saunder-Roe being absorbed by...

The de Havilland Tiger Moth must rank amongst the most well-known aircraft of all time, with 8, 868 built in the UK and abroad, serving with around 40 air arms worldwide and training thousands of...

AUTHOR: Tony Buttler FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound

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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...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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...

AUTHOR: Charles Stafrace FORMAT: 64 pages; softbound

AUTHOR: Steve Hazell FORMAT: 52 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...

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By David Grummitt A 64-page reference/photo album Atlantic Resolve: NATO's Show of Strength 2014-2018. A reference to modern NATO, especially US, and partner nations (esp. Ukraine) armour on...

By Gary Hatcher Atlantic Resolve is a response to Russia's actions in Ukraine, mainly the war in Donbass, and is funded under the European Reassurance Initiative. The US took several immediate...

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Fall of Iron - Light and Medium bomber aircraft of World War 2Authors Gary Hatcher & Chris MeddingsFall of Iron is the first in a series of compendium volumes covering military aircraft with a focus...

Author: Kev Darling / 98 pages When USAF went searching for a new jet trainer in the early 1950's to replace the Lockheed T-33, it came as a great surprise to all when Cessna, best known for...

Author: Charles Straface / 122 pages The US Navy embarked on the VFX fighter programme when it became obvious that the weight, engine and manoeuvrability issues plaguing F-111B, the naval...

Author: Charles Straface / 62 pages The Bristol Britannia, known as the Whispering Giant because of its silent engines, was the world's first long-range turboprop-powered aircraft. It was built...

Author: Dave Hooper; 49 pages The Albatros D.III was flown by many top German aces during World War One, including Wilhelm Frankl, Erich L??wenhardt, Manfred von Richthofen, Karl Emil Sch??fer,...

Author: Nikolay Yakubovich/ 65 pages The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco followed on from the successful MiG-15 design providing the Soviet air forces with a high-subsonic fighter aircraft that...

by Charles Stafrace Never glamorous and not receiving the recognition showered on its deck mates, the shipboard Douglas A3D Skywarrior will be remembered by US Navy fans and historians for many...

45 pages by Adrian M Balch As the mighty battlewagon ploughed through the waters of the Pacific few would have noticed the little aircraft perched on the ships stern. To many it was 'old, slow...

by Charles StafraceThe Douglas C-54 Skymaster, a direct adaptation of the civilian DC-4 while still on the production line, became the outstanding long-range four-engined transport aircraft of the...

No.108 Martin Mariner & Marlin by Kev Darling The Glenn L Martin company would produce the most successful range of seaplanes to enter US service. The first off the blocks was the PBM Mariner that...

AUTHOR: Matthew Willis FORMAT: 36 pages; softbound The Sopwith Pup, as it is unofficially but universally known, was one of the first true British fighter aircraft, and one of the most...

By Oleg Rastrenin53 pages; softbound

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AUTHOR: Charles Stafrace FORMAT: 88 pages; softbound Controversy and competency is the best way to describe the first variable geometry combat aircraft to enter operational service anywhere...

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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...

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...

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...

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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...

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 -...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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