The second volume of Panzerwrecks is here, and if (like us) you like to use shots of real wartime vehicles as your modelling inspiration, you're in for a serious treat here. This modest looking production packs a real punch, with every square inch of its 100 pages being devoted to the reproduction of some fantastic, previously unpublished material, showing a very wide range of WW2 German armour in various states of destruction and abandonment. It's fair to say that there are no fillers in this book at all - every one of the 118 photographs shows something interesting, and all are reproduced large - which makes us very happy! The range of machinery on show is astonishing - way too much to catalogue here but highlights for us include Panthers A & D in a boneyard complete with posing GIs, an amazing section of shots taken in a marshalling yard near Ljubliana of Italian StuG M41s, Pz.Kpfw M42s, as well as Sd.Kfz.251/22, eight wheeled Sd.Kfz 231 and a whole heap of other types, all on railcars - mouthwatering images all crying out to be modelled! A blown-up '223 on a Berlin street, a KO'd Tiger I by the Brandenburg gate and a superb set taken at the Znojmo boneyard provide headspinning modelling ideas, and the rest of the book os, well, see for yourself, it's marvellous! Panzerwrecks 2 is one of those productions that just when you think you've seen all the good stuff, you turn the page and there's even more!

VERDICT; For pure diorama ideas and modelling inspirtation, this books represents ridiculously good value, and we can not recommend it highly enough.

 

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