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GLOSTER GREBE AND GAMECOCK (MMP: Orange)

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This book is really outstanding. It is the latest entry in MMP's Orange Series (No. 8112). The book is in the European B5 size, a 6-1/2" x 9", 208 page, square bound card cover. The subject is a between wars British fighter biplane family. The subject is perfect for this format. The Grebe and Gamecock and related designs are small enough that 1/48th scale drawings fit on the pages so that unwieldy unbound foldout sheets are avoided.

Despite the title the book covers not only the Grebe and Gamecock but the related designs like the Grouse, Gorcock, Goldfinch, Guan, Gambet, and Nakajima A1N series. The text is very thorough covering the background, design and development history, service history, squadron use, personalities, reproduction project, model kits, etc. The tables are among the most extensive I've seen in this series. There are numerous black and white photos, contemporary technical manual drawings, contemporary advertisements, line drawings, bibliography, and much more.

Color is in two forms. The Gamecock reproduction project has many fine close up color photos of what looks to be the real thing. Finally, there are many pages of color profiles in RAF, civil, Finnish, and Japanese markings.

The only sour note is the understandable but ultimately unforgivable badly colorized photo on the cover.

Highly recommended. It was the Fury/Nimrod and Hart family books in this series that one me over to MMP in the first place. This is more of the same and I hope there is more in the works.