Airfix Build and Convert Part 5, Classic British Bombers and Mud Movers' (Scale Aviation Mag. 9781906959302)

Category Aviation Books, Subcategory Modelling, ISBN/Box 9781906959302, Publisher Scale Aviation Mag., Format a4, No. Pages 128, Version sb, Language English

With the 70th anniversary of the famous Dambusters raid upon us, the immortal Avro Lancaster will rightly be remembered for the role it played in the bomber offensive, but the heritage of bomber command, and the lineage of its aircraft extends both backwards before that epic night, and forwards to the present, to the future and beyond. Drawing upon the limitless talents of SAM Publications' contributors, Build & Convert #5 takes a look back at some of the Lancaster's antecedents and contemporaries and, more tellingly, some of those aircraft that cast off their war paint and underwent postwar conversion to airliners and transports.

But the story doesn't end here. Despite their sleek appearance and aggressive lines more modern types such as the sleek Jaguar and the Tornado GR 1 were designed as bombers - for an age of precision strikes and surgical targeting, and these modern day 'mud movers' take their place in this latest engrossing title beside the four-engined heavies and twins of the Second World War.

Another not to be missed helping of modelling and aviation expertise!