Terryn, Lieven Scale Modelling Handbook. Scale Modelling Manual. Band 4

This is the fourth Manual in a series about Scale Modelling where the aim is to bring a lot of concentrated information about painting and general modelling techniques for all modellers at a competitive retail price.
Each manual will deal with a specific topic in detail, offering a lot of different approaches and techniques and in most cases written by one author. The contents will be carefully selected and so that every reader should find something new to try and to adapt to their own methods.
Each book has high quality photos and a detailed text enabling readers to easily follow the progress of assembly and painting methods and help adopt new modelling techniques and different approaches.
In the other editions the length of each theme was limited due to the number of pages taken for other content, but here there are no such limitations. Each theme will be presented in a most detailed and explanatory way so there will be no omissions or unanswered questions.
Depending on the themes and content, real painted colour chips of hues and mixes will be added with information on how to use them.
In this series the editors will include various modelling aspects from Historic and Fantasy, Scale Models, Dioramas, Vignettes, Figures and Busts to techniques and history you can model.
This particular issue will cover in depth the construction of a diorama based on wartime photos and events. The main theme is a detachment of German Forces from Kampfgruppe "Hansen", 1st SS Panzer Division, at Poteau on 18th December 1944 - two days into the Battle of the Bulge - after setting up an Ambush of an American convoy of the 14th Cavalry Group. This big operation by the German Forces, known as Ardennes Offensive, was the last in such a large scale before the end of War. This book includes 60 high quality photos, 30 of which are in-progress, and a very detailed text, so the reader can easily follow the whole procedure in detail from start to finish. The author included all the sets, accessories, and paint codes used to add all the details to the diorama as well as the full interior of the Tamiya M8 armoured car.

The main theme of this issue is a diorama centred on a section of Kampfgruppe "Hansen", 1st SS Panzer Division, in Poteau on 18 December 1944 - two days after the start of the Battle of the Bulge - after it had ambushed an American convoy of the 14th Cavalry Group.