Customer Reviews

The Verlinden Way Volume 1

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This is Verlinden's first book on dioramas, and it includes quite a lot of them. Each diorama gets, on the average, a couple of photos (the photography is top notch), and a brief description of the used kits.

Do not look for detailed building information here; the book only includes a few too short text pages at the beginning. The emphasis is on pictures, which provide plenty of ideas for your own dioramas.

Ok, Verlinden is a good modeller, and quite a prolific too, but this first volume is completely useless.
Techniques and modelling tips are very basic (almost poor): just a fiew paragraph, couple of pages and that's it!
Diorama next: a lot of pictures, but again, no comments on 'how it's done', just the finished stuff.
Overall, it could have been a good book back in the '80s, but today you could easily find much more informations, pictures, tips, step by step guides for free on the internet.
For me it has been a complete disillusionment on papaer.

Don't waste your money like I did! Similar pix contained therein can be viewed in mass quantity on many sites. Minimal How-to, only 3 pgs dedicated to the topic.

Verlinden was among the first of the people who took model building to a whole new level making an art form. ANY book that shows his insights and his how tos is worth the price of admission! This isn't an easy to find book and seldom do you find it at a discounted price, if you find it at all. A most worth buy, especially if are are an up and coming model builder.