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Rivista Italiana Difesa, January 2021

I knew little about Russian attack helicopters in general, and this book has improved my knowledge in this area. It will certainly prove useful to Russian aviation enthusiasts and modellers.

Scale Aviation Modeller International, December 2019 - reviewed by MJC

First-class documentation ideal for the air modeler.

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Miniaturas JM

I found that this book had me reaching in to the stash to start building some of these very colourful and mean looking machines.

Highly recommended, particularly to fans of modern helicopters.

IPMS

A pleasant synthesis on these powerful rotating wing machines.

RID, July 2018/January 2019 – reviewed by Marco De Montis

Recently I was introduced to the FlightCraft series of Pen and Sword Books. This is an interesting series aimed at not only aviation enthusiasts, but more in specific to aviation scale modelers and researchers as well.

I ordered the Russian Gunship Helicopters title, by Yefim Gordon and Dimitriy Komissarov. It covers 3 distinct models of Russian attack helicopters. The ‘obvious’ Mil MI-24 ‘Hind’, but also the lesser known Mil MI-28 and the Kamov KA-52 (that’s one with counter-rotating main rotors).

The book is a great resource with extensive information on the development of the various types and many many great photographs. But that’s not all….. the second part of each chapter is made up of a review of various plastic model kits of the various helos. In this case including a few unknown (to me) Russian kit manufacturers as well as the more obvious ones like Airfix, Tamiya, Revell and the likes.

Also included are 3D drawings showing much detail and scale of the helicopters and reasonably well suited for 3D digital designers.

Last but not least there are pages full of detailed color schemes of each model, allowing the kit builders to properly color their models on completion.

I chose this particular title because there are already so many books about all the more mainstream (read: western powers) military aircraft that it would have been ‘just another book’ to me. But looking into a more exotic subject such as these Soviet machines not only provided me with some unknown information, it also was a good ‘test’ of the book series.

Test successfully completed…. I recommend this book to any (military) aviation enthusiast and especially to all kit builders wanting to dig into some Soviet fighting machines!

FSAddon

Informative and well-illustrated.

International Plastic Modellers Society

The authors clearly know their subject very well, and the advantages of having native Russian speakers writing on this topic are clear. ... The text is supported by a good selection of photos, with a mix of pictures of the real aircraft and well-built samples of the better models, detailed plans and colour side plans showing different paint schemes.

History of War

Ideal for modellers with well written content, neatly laid out and presented.

Military Modelling

The Flight Craft series combines a number of objectives. The subjects are reviewed as aircraft, an excellent selection of full colour images, many of them rare, illustrate the subjects in test and operation, detailed full colour drawings and b&w sketches show technical features and paint patterns, and model kits of the subjects are reviewed.

For modellers and model engineers, the book will be particularly welcome, reviewing available kits from Russia and other countries, together with information on how to make the most of these kits.

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