Operation Telic On Target Series book from Model Alliance Group

Model Alliance Group
On Target Profile series of books

Special No 1 'Operation Telic'

Review by Steve Bamford
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This new book from Model Alliance is created by well known profile artist Jon Freeman and the text is written by Andy Evans.

The book focuses giving modellers a large selection of colour profiles and reference photos of aircraft and noseart from Operation Telic Contained in this book are colour schemes and markings from British aircraft involved in Operation Iraqi Freedom. I've scanned a tiny selection of the colour pages to give you a small taste to the many amazing photos and colour profiles presented in this book. In fact there are 59 different colour profiles featured in this book. They cover Tornados, Harriers, Jaguar, Canberra and Nimrods.

Included with each colour profile is info on the particular plane as well as information about it's paint scheme. Above is an example of one of the colour photographs of noseart. Some of the profiles also include a top and bottom view and two side profiles to give an all around view of certain aircraft included in this book. Below I've include a tiny selection of some of the pages....out of respect to the artist's copyright, I am not providing larger scans.


Tornado Reference Photos and colour profiles

59 different colour profiles featured in this book


Harriers	Canberra and Nimrod	Nimrod

Also included in the book is a page with 12 colour chips for the various aircraft featured in this book. Towards the back of the book are 2 pages showing 2 Model Alliance decal sheets (2 in 1/48 and 2 in 1/72) featuring 40 different aircraft from this book. The 1/48 and 1/72 decal sheets are NOT included with this book, but there is ordering instructions included in this book, so you can order the decal sheet. 1/72 decals (MA72-109 and MA72-1110) cost £ 6.50 each.....1/48 decals (MA48-109 and MA48-110) cost £8.50 each

If the decals interest you...contact:

On Target Profiles

Aviation Workshop

Brook Barn

Letcombe Regis

Wantage

Oxfordshire

OX12 9SD

Click on image below to the right see a larger image

I'm quite impressed with the quality of this new book. Although the cover is a soft cover....it is a heavy weight cardboard cover. The pages are heavy weight paper....this is a reference book sure to last a long long time....printing quality and picture/artwork quality is clear and first rate. I'm quite impressed with this new book and I look forward to other additions to this new On Target Profile Series. I recommend this book to anyone interested in the British Aircraft involved in Operation Telic. Special thanks to Jon Freeman for the review sample and bringing this book to my attention.

Steve