Kagero? - Aircraft of World War II

Lucky13 · 09-07-2009, 01:15 PM

Anyone bought their 3D, Topcolors and Topdrawings books and what's the War Camera Photobooks?

What are they like?

Wurger · 09-07-2009, 01:35 PM

I have all Topdrawings and seen Topcolors issues.I haven't seen The Wat Camera Photobook series yet.It seems there is the first number of the series available at the moment only.
These are excellent There are decals included to every issue.Of course they correspond to a/c descrbed in an issue.
I can recommend these.

Lucky13 · 09-07-2009, 01:53 PM

I have some (back in Sweden...moooan) of Kagero and AJ Press since before, just curious. Much appreciated my friend! Maybe a wee peek?

B-17engineer · 09-07-2009, 02:22 PM

With Jan, A peak please

Maximowitz · 09-07-2009, 02:38 PM

Jan, the Kagero and A J Press books are great, superb value too. With Kagero you have to be a bit careful though as some of the profiles and photo captions are innacurate or just plain wrong. Just taking one as an example "Me 410 in Combat", I've counted twelve errors in the book as a whole, but that aside they are worth having for the photographs alone. They also have a nasty habit of "borrowing" other writers work without credit or payment, there's a whole thread about that on another forum...

A Polish publisher I'm very impressed with is called AJAKS who produce the excellent "Militaria i Fakty" series of books. I recommend these highly. I'm not sure if they are available in the UK though, I'm fortunate enough to have this rather nice chap who lives in Pila to send them to me. You might know him, he's got this fetish for "Butcher Birds."

I have the Top Drawings for the Me 262 and Fw 190 D and have to say they are top notch and invaluable for modellers, the 1/72 and 1/48 drawings are superb.

So.... thank God for Poland! Collecting books on the Luftwaffe is expensive enough (£300 for all three volumes of Prien's History of JG 53? *faints*), so anything that is value for money should be applauded.

Oh, and you should see their modelling magazines too... they put anything produced in the UK to shame.

F*ck it! I'm moving to Warsaw!

Lucky13 · 09-07-2009, 03:31 PM

Hmmm.....a fetish for "Butcher Birds", Pila.......hmmm.....I wooonder who that might be?

I'll be buying a house in Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Bukarest, St Petersburgh.....just to keep close to the action!

Airframes · 09-07-2009, 03:35 PM

Think I might move to Slavicin for the same reason! And it's 'just' across the border from Poland.....

Wayne Little · 09-08-2009, 09:33 AM

I concur with all comments, Jan got a few Kagero books myself good value!

09-07-2009, 01:15 PM	#1
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 15,121	Kagero? Anyone bought their 3D, Topcolors and Topdrawings books and what's the War Camera Photobooks? What are they like? __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

09-07-2009, 01:35 PM	#2
Wurger Siggy Master Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland Posts: 13,964	I have all Topdrawings and seen Topcolors issues.I haven't seen The Wat Camera Photobook series yet.It seems there is the first number of the series available at the moment only. These are excellent There are decals included to every issue.Of course they correspond to a/c descrbed in an issue. I can recommend these. __________________

09-07-2009, 01:53 PM	#3
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 15,121	I have some (back in Sweden...moooan) of Kagero and AJ Press since before, just curious. Much appreciated my friend! Maybe a wee peek? __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

09-07-2009, 02:22 PM	#4
B-17engineer Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: New Jersey Posts: 5,668	With Jan, A peak please __________________ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe36UMRkRbk

09-07-2009, 02:38 PM	#5
Maximowitz Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: London, England. Posts: 838	Jan, the Kagero and A J Press books are great, superb value too. With Kagero you have to be a bit careful though as some of the profiles and photo captions are innacurate or just plain wrong. Just taking one as an example "Me 410 in Combat", I've counted twelve errors in the book as a whole, but that aside they are worth having for the photographs alone. They also have a nasty habit of "borrowing" other writers work without credit or payment, there's a whole thread about that on another forum... A Polish publisher I'm very impressed with is called AJAKS who produce the excellent "Militaria i Fakty" series of books. I recommend these highly. I'm not sure if they are available in the UK though, I'm fortunate enough to have this rather nice chap who lives in Pila to send them to me. You might know him, he's got this fetish for "Butcher Birds." I have the Top Drawings for the Me 262 and Fw 190 D and have to say they are top notch and invaluable for modellers, the 1/72 and 1/48 drawings are superb. So.... thank God for Poland! Collecting books on the Luftwaffe is expensive enough (£300 for all three volumes of Prien's History of JG 53? faints), so anything that is value for money should be applauded. Oh, and you should see their modelling magazines too... they put anything produced in the UK to shame. F*ck it! I'm moving to Warsaw! __________________

09-07-2009, 03:31 PM	#6
Lucky13 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland Posts: 15,121	Hmmm.....a fetish for "Butcher Birds", Pila.......hmmm.....I wooonder who that might be? I'll be buying a house in Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Bukarest, St Petersburgh.....just to keep close to the action! __________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"

09-07-2009, 03:35 PM	#7
Airframes Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 9,030	Think I might move to Slavicin for the same reason! And it's 'just' across the border from Poland..... __________________

09-08-2009, 09:33 AM	#8
Wayne Little Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust. Posts: 12,487	I concur with all comments, Jan got a few Kagero books myself good value! __________________

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