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Compendium Films- Expert Model Craft DVD Series
Expert Model Craft is a new series of Instructional DVD's for Modelers of all types. Top modelers from around the world offer up a highly detailed instructional videos. DVDs menu lists each topic for easy and immediate navigation whilst the DVD pause facility allows you to stop the action at any time to appreciate in close detail each step and the finished astonishing models.
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Catalog # Title/Description. Price*
CMC-021 Warhorses - Converting & Painting Model Horses $ 24.99
CMC-022 Realistic WWII Aircraft Finishing Techniques $ 24.99
CMC-036 Euro Militaire 2006 Special $ 24.99
CMC-068 Airbrush Painting Techniques $ 24.99
CMC-077 Realistic Model Buildings $ 24.99
CMC-069 Painting & Finishing Military Figures $ 24.99
CMC-097 Terrain Modeling $ 24.99
CMC-098 Modeling & Detailing German Armour $ 24.99
CMC-099 Realistic Armor Finishing Techniques $ 24.99
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Modelling Manual Series
Each book provides step-by-step instructions enabling you to master new techniques and projects. Walk-around photography, product information and a guide to where to see the “real thing” contribute to a hands-on, practical approach. Books in this series provide detailed guidelines to help you build specific models of tank or aircraft, and offer advice on techniques such as airbrush painting and how to create dioramas. Featuring full colour model photography throughout, together with contemporary images for reference and up-to-date market information they offer a complete “how to” guide to military model making.
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MM01 Basic Aviation Modelling
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM02 Advanced Aviation Modelling
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM03 Basic Military Vehicle Modelling
This is the third book in the Modelling Manual series which deals with the basics of military vehicle modelling - one of the most popular subjects for Modeler's. The first of three books to deal with this fascinating subject Basic Military Vehicle Modelling introduces the modeler to some basic model types with a series of close-up, step-by-step photographs. Working with kits from Tamiya, Verlinden, Revell and others, the less experienced modeler is shown the do’s and dont’s of modelling techniques, with particular emphasis on the common difficulties that the inexperienced modeller might face.
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM04 Advanced Military Vehicle Modelling
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM05 Intermediate Military Vehicle Modelling
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM06 Airbrush Painting Techniques
The correct use of the airbrush is one of the most important skills that must be mastered by a modeller, but also one of the most difficult. This book is designed to impart the techniques of using this effective tool quickly and easily. All three types of airbrush are examined and explained in simple terms, cleaning and maintenance are looked at, and one section even details how to build a compressor in order to save on starting costs. The title boasts an excellent section on actually using the airbrush, and studies in depth the painting of four different miniatures. Clear photographs are taken of the painting process on each different model, showing all sorts of exciting techniques. Methods of lightening and darkening, representing camouflage and weathering and mixing exactly the right colour are all explained. A book that will suit both complete beginners and those wanting to get more out of their airbrush.
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM07 World War II Dioramas
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM08 Modelling & Painting Figures
In many ways modelling figures is the most difficult part of the model-maker’s art. If the posture is wrong, if the physical attributes and features aren’t life-like and in the right proportions, or if the clothing and the play of light on the clothing is inaccurate the figures will look stilted and inhuman. If they are in a diorama, it won’t matter how good the rest of the model-making is, the effect will be ruined. The eighth of Osprey’s Modelling Manuals provides a masterclass in the art of figure modelling and painting. The work of many talented modellers is shown, identifying how to meet this demanding challenge and produce models of the highest calibre. The meticulous techniques are skilled but simple enough for the amateur modelling enthusiast to learn from and improve their work. Figure modelling of all kinds is explained, from adapting existing commercial models to starting from scratch.
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM09 Modelling World War II Figures
The variety of combatants, uniforms, camouflage schemes and weapons used in WWII gives the figure modeller an almost inexhaustible supply of subjects, and accounts for the popularity of WWII figure modelling. This book, using the step-by-step technique that has made these books so popular, is an invaluable guide to the subject. The figures dealt with include those from the heat of the Western Desert to the snows of the arctic North, from the years of the blitzkrieg to the final days of the Third Reich. Practical modelling and painting techniques are carefully explained, helping the reader to produce realistic models and deal with the difficulties of reproducing accurate and realistic camouflage patterns.
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM10 Post-War Tanks
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM11 Modelling Soft Skinned Military Vehicles
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM12 Post-War Aircraft
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM13 Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM14 M4 Sherman
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM16 T-34/76 & T-34/8
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM17 Messerschmitt Bf 109
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM19 North American P-51 Mustang
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM20 Focke-Wulf FW 190
(Published in conjunction with Osprey)
$ 17.99
MM21 PANZERKAMPFWAGEN IV (Panzer IV)
(Published in conjunction with Euromodelisimo)
$ 17.99
MM22 PANZERKAMPFWAGEN V (Panther and Jagdpanther)
(Published in conjunction with Euromodelisimo)
$ 17.99
Winsome Warriors
1859150608 Winesome Warriors $ 19.99
1859150977 More Winesome Warriors $ 19.99
1902579186 Tank Girls $ 19.99