Cmk Tsr2 Book

[Thorvic]

CMK TSR2 Book

Intended to complement the resin sets they have produced, includes some whif profiles.

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[DamienB]

It's not very good...

Very brief history is based entirely on the Wings of Fame article and a few howlers appear later in the book, such as the old long-range interceptor version to carry AAMs. The bomb bay of the Cosford example apparently has fuel bladders in it - not cooling blankets for the test equipment then...?

Most of the book is walkaround photos, all in colour at least but nothing you couldn't get yourself with a visit to the museums in question. No cockpit photos for instance, and some shots are blurred and/or overexposed - certainly not suitable for publication!

There's an article supposedly on building the Airfix kit which is just an extended advert for the CMK resin bits (very little info on actually building the kit!).

Then there's the colour profiles, almost all of which have a serious printing error - the serials have been printed in some sort of symbol font, so are totally illegible. List of profiles - XR219/220's standard schemes, XR224 'Nightbird' in raspberry ripple, XS977 in a variation of raspberry ripple, XS954 in all-black 16 Sqn 'Saint' scheme, XS664 in wraparound camo, XS986 in overall grey, XS980 in red flag sand/brown wraparound camo, and on the back cover XR227 in 12 Sqn anniversary scheme of white with green stripes and fox head on top of wing (the only really imaginative one I think).

Certainly not worth the money.