Eye candy galore!

Periscopio Publications just sent me a copy of their new Advanced Figure Modelling 'strongly recommended by Pegaso Models'. As a model book, it's not really fit for the review section of Ancient Warfare, but as a modeller, I definitely perked up when this book came out of the shipping box.

The book is beautifully published in full color and crammed to the brim with photos spread over its 180 pages (cover included). It contains some 30 models and diorama's, all 54mm and up, and a number of uniform, reference illustrations. The inclusion of the latter is a little puzzling and they seem random, until you realize they are actually the illustrations from the first books from Periscopio's new Great Battles series. They're ancient subjects mostly, so that's a pretty good deal, I'd say!
The model articles are evenly divided between the color-scheme-type articles and more extensive stories about research and conversion. Personally, I prefer the latter kind, especially when they're written by the likes of Mike Blank and Jaume Ortiz. There are some useful tips in here! It's just a pity that in some of the most extensive cases of scratch-building and conversions, we only get to see the final result. I'd have loved to see the in-process photos where you can see exactly how it was done.
Little niggles about language slips aside - I can't blame them for Graecisms when I'm all too familiar with my own Dutchlish - the combination of the excellent photography and the reference illustrations makes for a very nice new Ancient figure modeller book. €40 is not cheap, but if you were going to get the Great Battles series Ancients book for the illustrations, this is a good deal!