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Me 262A Schwalbe
(2nd Edition)

MMP Books
 

S u m m a r y :

Catalogue Number, Description and ISBN:

Big Yellow Series, BIG002 - Me 262A Schwalbe (2nd Edition)
ISBN: 8391632733
Author: Robert Peckowski Illustrator: Artur Juszczak

Contents & Media:

Hard-cover pictorial binding, A4 portrait format, 112 pages (with 88 in colour).

Price:

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Review Type:

First Look

Advantages:

Nice plans, attractive illustrations, good photos, and useful detail drawings

Disadvantages:

None apparent.

Conclusion:

The book is produced to high standards and is an excellent reference for Me 262A enthusiasts, including those interested in sub-types. It also offers a wealth of information for modellers, by identifying variant differences, providing scale drawings of these, along with colour schemes and walk-around detail images. I definitely recommend it.


Reviewed by Mark Davies


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FirstRead

 

The Me 262 should need no introduction to most readers; but for a handy synopsis on its development and service history, check out Wikepedia by clicking here.

The book is focussed exclusively on the Me 262A and its sub-variants. It has a hard cover with 112 A-4 pages, 88 of which include either colour profiles or colour photographs of actual aircraft. This is the second and expanded edition.

It does not set out to give the Me 262’s service history, but instead focuses on providing illustrative coverage of the Me 262A’s evolution and anatomy. As such it covers the prototype and the various production versions, illustrating each with 1/72-scale plans. There are also numerous very nicely executed illustrations of various colour schemes, provided as full-page profiles, and often accompanied by plan views as well. The book is replete with technical drawings of airframe components from official manuals, plus many walkaround-style photos of museum examples from around the world. In addition to these there is a fairly generous smattering of wartime images, many dealing with the more obscure sub-variants.
Other handy information includes tables detailing prototype and test-bed details, production block information, and a list of Me 262 aces. This last table includes each ace’s total victories; those gained flying the Me 262, and the units he flew the jet fighter with.

The quality of the colour photos is very good, and benefit from generally being quite large. A nice touch is that many of the pages with museum walk-around photos also include technical illustrations of the same components from period manuals. The attractive colour scheme illustrations include colour information in the form of RLM codes, along with unit and pilot information where available.

A video of the book with a page by page preview is provided here, but be warned, its resolution does not do justice to the scale plans:

 

 

Thanks to MMP Books  for the sample.

All MMP Books are available direct from the publishers, who now accept credit cards (Visa, MC, Amex, Switch)  

North American distributors are MMD, Australian distributors are Platypus Publications. In Europe, the books are available from any good bookshop (via our UK distributors, Orca). Contact MMP direct in case of difficulties. 

Thanks to Roger at MMP Books  for the sample.

Review Copyright © 2014 by Mark Davies
This Page Created on 6 August,, 2014
Last updated 6 August, 2014

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