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MODEL BUS ASSEMBLAGE MBA1
Price
£11.95
Product Code
MBA1
Brand
MODEL BUSES
You Will Earn 11 points which is the equivalent of £0.11
Description
MODEL BUS ASSEMBLAGE MBA1
by: Brian Cox
"A new, and welcome, publication is this overview of white metal kits produced over the past 30 years or so, in various scales ranging from 2mm up to 7mm. The author, Brian Cox, is well known for his earlier publications on various model bus books that were produced by Pirate Models during the period 1970 to 1980, so he can be classed as an expert on the subject.
As the cover of the book says, it is a ‘Worldwide photographic survey of cast and etched metal model bus construction kits’. The book has over 600 individual colour pictures of the numerous kits that have been available over the years, each with a brief description of the actual model. The kits have been very well constructed; difficult considering the nature of some of the models displayed. Inside the front cover there is a colour coded index to the various manufacturers, some well known and still in business today, others consigned to history!
Each picture is colour coded to the index, but I did find that, in the absence of a manufacturer's name alongside the majority of the pictures, I did have to keep referring back and forth to the front page to see who made the kit I was looking at. As there is plenty of space within the area allotted to each picture I feel that the manufacturer's name should have been included. Another minor point is that the punctuation of the descriptions is in some cases rather awry! For example, Pl- on one line, and axton on the next line! If the text had been justified, then this would have been overcome.
A side issue to the book is that, it does illustrate the failings of some kits, in that they do not look like the actual prototype vehicles. This is certainly not the fault of the person constructing the kits, but of the actual kit itself, and possibly might explain one reason for the current popularity of resin kits. However it is noticeable that some of the kits of older vehicles are very accurate, whereas it is the more modern vehicles (with their more complex shapes) that fall down is this respect, particularly the Volvo Ailsa vehicles depicted.
If like many others you still have a few unmade white metal kits in the cupboard, and wonder what they might look like when made up, then this is the book for you. It does not give any hints or tips on the construction of the kits, merely serving as an excellent guide to the kits that have been and, in some cases, are still available today, and it succeeds in that purpose. Perhaps in a few years time, we might see a similar production for resin bus kits!
210mm x 297mm
66 pages
Softback
Publisher: Model Buses
