Customer Reviews

Challenger Main Battle Tank 1982-97 (New Vanguard)

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The book in the Vanguard Series about the Challenger Main Battle Tank offers a good introduction about the development of the tank and its configurations. This is about as far the book goes. For a modeler who is looking for more close-up details and always hungry for a lot of color photographs in all prespectives possible, the book falls short of expectations. Modelers would be more rewarded from specialty publications like Concord Publications, Squadron "walk- around" series or the excellent publications from Verlinden.

I enjoyed the history of the Challenger tank and the author's frankness about its shorcomings (you do have to read between the lines, though, afterall, the author is British). These New Vanguard books are a compromise between larger, more detailed histories and photo books aimed at modlers. As with many compromises, not all will be satisfied. Its a good buy, what soured me was the interior cutaway lacked complete detail & is hard to see some of the drawing due to the way the drawing is cut out on the centerfold page. The older Vanguard series avoided this by having the interior drawings (and more of them) on one page.