HT Model Magazine

Letov S-328 and S-528 bookScale

Product # 910  Produced by Peter Sumichrast and Jozef And'al

Product Article by Steve Bamford

 

 

 

This softcover book from HT Model Magazine is specifically devoted to the Letov S-328 and S-528.  This is  a soft cover book made from heavy weight glossy magazine paper, so it will hold up well to continued use.  The cover....(although a soft cover) is made from thick glossy paper and will hold together well.  The book is produced in Slovakia, so it is written in the Slovak language and comes with 6 pages in English to

translate the main introduction text of the book, but the true beauty and value of this book is it's detailed walkaround photos and historical wartime photos of the Letov S-328 and S-528's. 

The Letov S-328 and S-528's are between the War bi-plane aircraft.  This type of aircraft was a 2 seat aircraft used for bombing that carried a 500Kg bombload.  These aircr5aft were used by the Czecho-Slovak Air Force, Luftwaffe when some were captured, Bulgaria Air Force.  This book has a large selection of photos......294 B&W photos and 17colour glossy photos.  There are also 80 beautifully done colour profiles of various Slovak, German and Bulgarian and even some used by Police Air Force......I've included one colour profile below to give you a feel.  The photos in this book focus on most if not all the detail areas that modellers are obsessed with.  Lots of cockpit photos.....colour photos of the engine......photos of various cannons and machine guns, fuselage framing and drawings of wing ribbing and so much more.  As well as photos of the landing gear, fuselage interior, guns, cockpit, exterior, and on and on.  This book is very complete.

One very interesting part of this book is the section that is from original documents that explains the location and size etc of nation markings.

The 80 colour profiles are single side views with the occasional view of the top of the wings to give you an idea of the layout of the camo.  Below I've include a tiny selection of some of the pages....out of respect to the producers of this fine book, I am not providing larger scans.

Cockpit photos Floats and ski photos colour and B&W Engine photos Colour profiles  black and white drawings

80 different colour profiles featured in this book

Helpful engine, gun, cockpit and other detail photos....some in colour.

I like the many B&W photos that show the aircraft without any skin or cloth covering......thus exposing the framework and interior detail.

I'm quite impressed with the quality of this book and I look forward to other editions from this company.  I recommend this book to all modellersplannign on building this aircraft as a model.  I am quite pleased to add this book to my library.....it will prove to be a very helpful book oin my reference library.  Special thanks to the folks at HT Model Magazine for the review sample and bringing this book to my attention.  

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Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford