Kagero Photosniper 007 Chieftain

I am pleased to officially announce that Mr Robert Griffin's new title "Photosniper 007-Chieftain Main Battle Tank: Development and Active Service from Prototype to Mk.11" from the well known Polish company Kagero Publishing will be released in late January 2013. I have had the pleasure of doing the English language editing for this work and I can tell everyone it promises to give a fine account of all the gun tank variants (Mk.1 to Mk.11). Bob has described the history as only one who has lived it can do. The book includes ORBATS (with callsigns) for a Chieftain regiment (guess which one!) in the early 1970s and again in 1989, plans for a Mk.3/3 and a Mk11, and a fine selection of over a dozen colour plates of Chieftains in British, Iranian and Kuwaiti service for the modeller. The Shrivenham Mk.11 gets the full walkaround detail treatment with lots of detail shots and there are plentiful developmental and in-service photographs of all the gun tank versions. The book will run to over 70 pages, nearly all of which have black and white and colour illustrations. Kagero has done a fine job presenting the material and it will be certain to please all fans of British postwar armour.

Donc, nouveau bouquin de Bob Griffin sur le Chieftain (versions char de combat), 70+pages sur les prototypes jusqu'au Mk.11. Photos detail de plusieurs versions, une traitement detail exceptionel du Mk.11.
Plans du Mk.3/3 et Mk.11, une belle douzaine de planches de couleur de vehicules Britanniques, Iraniens, de la brigade des martyrs du Kowait.
Un bouquin exceptionel de chez Kagero dans la serie Photosniper. Il va paraitre au mois de Janvier, redacteur en anglais...Merlin Robinson.

Joyeux Noel les amis, mes meilleurs voeux au maquettistes Francais.

Merlin

Hi Merlin,
Glad to hear you !
The book seems interesting.
As you know, it's the Iranian ones that do interest me.
Another book to buy...

J'ai recu ma copies du Chieftain vendredi soir, c'est très beau... et pour notre Bruno, 4 planches de couleurs iraniens et un seul koweitais, et 15 des différents schémas britaniques (noir et vert, schema urbaine Berlin, schema BATUS, vert bronze etc). Il comprend aussi une organigramme d'un regiment de Chieftain en 1970 et encore en 1989. Il y a aussi deux plans au 1:55e du Mk.3/3 et du Mk.11... et 153 photos (13 en noir et blanc).
On travaille sur Challenger 1 a present dans la mème serie.

merlin