Model Alliance Group

On Target Profile series of books

English Electric Canberra Part 1

Product # ISBN # 1-904643-25-6 

Product Article by Steve Bamford in 2005

 

 

 

 

This new book from Model Alliance is created by well known profile artist Jon Freeman.

The book focuses on giving modellers a large selection of colour profiles and colour photos to help expand their reference library. I've scanned a tiny selection of the colour profiles and photos to give you  a small taste to the many colour profiles presented in this book.  In fact there are 104 different Canbera colour profiles featured in this book with some of these profiles showing 4 views of that particular aircraft.  They cover Canberras including the B.2, B.6, B.15, B.16, E.15, PR.3,PR.7, T.4, T.17, T.19 and the TT.18  in RAF and FAA service.  The colour profiles in this book feature a huge variety of paint schemes including one that appears to be wearing D-Day type stripes that was used in 1956 is support of "Operation Musketeer" during the Suez Crisis. 

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 profiles.  About 20% of the profiles also include a top and bottom view and two side profiles  to give an all around view of certain Canberras included in this book.  There is also 29 colour photos.  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.

104 different Canberra colour profiles featured in this book

Towards the back of the book is a  page showing a Model Alliance decal sheet that includes some of the Canberras featured in this book....including some with some very colourful artwork.  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 (MA72-127) cost £ 9.00 .....1/48 decals (MA48-127) cost £13.00 if you use the order form included in this book.

EE Canberra RAF Unit Badges and Logos Part 1  decal sheet

If the decals interest you...contact: 
 

On Target Profiles

Aviation Workshop
13 Charlton Road
Wantage
Oxon
OX12 8EP
UK
 

or e-mail them at

aviation-workshop@btconnect.com

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.  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 early Canberras flown by the RAF and the FAA.  Later editions in this profile series will feature part 2 of the Canberra series.  Special thanks to Jon Freeman for the review sample and bringing this book to my attention.

Steve

Photos and text © by Steve Bamford