The Avro Lancaster (including the Manchester) Part 1 - Wartime Service - A Complete Guide to the RAF's Legendary Heavy Bomber

Part one: - A Complete Guide to the RAF's Legendary Heavy Bomber

The Lancaster has been a popular aircraft type with modellers and has recently been the subject of several new toolings in all scales, especially in 1/32nd and 1/48th. Valiant's latest book will go some way towards unpicking the different variants and detail differences that apply to the type. This first volume covers the Avro Manchester and Lancaster B Mks I, II, III & VI in RAF (inc. RCAF/RAAF) service in WWII

It will contain at least 272 pages packed with vital information that no active modeller and RAF Bomber Command enthusiast should be without.

They each contain:
60+ pages of technical information
60+ pages of walk-around images and technical diagrams
8+ pages of camouflage and markings
25+ pages of model builds and modelling information
200+ photographs including wartime images
Colour side views and four-views by Richard J. Caruana
3D isometric views of all variants by Juraj Jankovic
Specially commissioned extensive full kit builds by Steve A. Evans
Specially commissioned front cover artwork by Jerry Boucher
Bonus set of scale plans

The Avro Lancaster Part 2 will cover postwar variants, use by foreign air forces, civilian types, both Lancaster and Lancastrian, and trials and test-bed machines. This volume will published later this year. Full details of its contents will be announced in due course.