Mr Black Publications SMH-SMM04 Scale Model Handbook: Scale Modelling Manual Vol. 4 (English, 24 pages)

This is the fourth Manual in our new series about Scale Modelling where our 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 our 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 we 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 author of this Super Diorama is the well-known master modeller Lieven Terryn from Belgium. Lieven was the author of our 1st Scale Modelling Manual, that included the 'Siege of Tobruk 1941', a Super Diorama in detail and an SBS Figure Painting with oil colours of an Alpine Miniatures Leutnant of the 8th Panzer Regiment in Libya 1941, and an article by Mr Black's Team on relevant acrylic colour sets for DAK uniforms and how to use them.
Thanks must go to the following: AK-Interactive (Fernando Vallejo), Andrea Miniatures (Alexandra Fernandez), Vallejo Acrylics (Alex Vallejo), Scale75 (Jose Mendez), Kimera Colors (Luca Marchetti & Pietro Balloni), Lifecolors (Alessandro Balbo and Rolando Iezzi), Yannis Papadopoulos and our English Text Editor Ken Jones.
Special thanks must go to Lieven Terryn who provided us with all the necessary material so this book could be released as a printed work.
Editor / Publisher
Stelios Demiras

CONTENTS
4 Kampfgruppe Hansen 1st SS Panzer Division, Poteau, 18th December 1944
Building a 1/35 Scale Diorama Based on Photographs
CONTRIBUTOR
LIEVEN TERRYN
A4 FORMAT
24 PAGES