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Windsock International
 

Windsock International

Volume 20, Number 1
January/February 2004
Albatros Productions, LTD, 2004

Reviewed By Chris Banyai-Riepl

The latest issue of Windsock International comes with quite an interesting collection of useful articles and materials. Of great interest to modelers of any genre is another edition of 'Jottings from an Unrepentant Modeller's Notebook' by Harry Woodman. In this great article are dozens of useful tidbits ranging from portraying metal surfaces to creating corrugated surfaces. Following this is another section in Jon Guttman's long-running series on volunteer pilots in French Escadrille service. This article is accompanied by some excellent photos documenting these fliers.

Speaking of photos, one of the real gems in this issue is the "French Warplanes in Colour No. 1". This has a COLOR photo from World War One, showing the nacelle of a Farman F.40 sitting on a trailer in front of a factory, with a pair of Letord fuselages behind it, also on a fuselage. According to a blurb in the Despatches, there are several of these original autochromes that will be published in future issues of Windsock, something that I, for one, am definitely looking forward to.

Adding to this already spectacular issue is a center spread of Fokker E.III drawings, followed by an interesting piece on Mikael Carlson's new-build full-size Fokker D.VII. No date is given for its first flight, but it looks like he's getting close to the finish line here. Finally, there is a nice article on a Teutonic Breguet, detailing a Breguet Br.14 in German service, accompanied by our own Bob Pearson's artwork. Rounding out the issue are the usual kit reviews and mini-builds.

While the period color photo alone makes this an issue well worth having, the other articles really make for a nice bit of afternoon reading. If you are not a subscriber to Windsock, and World War One aviation interests you, visit the Albatros website and sign up today.