Warpaint Aviation 1: Fall Of Iron

Fall of Iron is the first in the new series by Guideline License Publicationsand the team that brings you Military Modelcraft International in collaborationwith Acrylicos Vallejo.The publication examines some of the twin-engined medium bombers ofWorld War Two and includes a selection of profiles by Richard Mason, as wellas a ground-breaking piece of research on the early B-25 Mitchell by BrianDerbyshire that offers an incisive look into the business of wartime massproductionand the vast number of changes to the ensuing airframes broughtabout as a result of ongoing combat experience. Other aircraft coveredinclude the rarely discussed Tupolev SB-2, the Mitsubishi G4M Betty, BristolBlenheim, Savoia-Marchetti SM.79, Petylyakov Pe-2 and the Handley PageHampden.Many of these aircraft have been overlooked as also-rans by history and thescale modelling community but an examination of similar types designed forsimilar roles from various Axis and Allied air forces demonstrates just howmuch aircraft development kept pace during the conflict, and how despitetheir clear external differences aircraft designers all over the World weredrawing the same conclusions as a result of experience gained in battle.Comprehensive enough to inform but concise enough to be useful, Fall ofIron presents a picture of Wartime bomber development that will help thereader understand the essential role these unsung machines played and thesometimes remarkable use that was made of them.