There's some discussion about this very expensive book on Hyperscale Plane Talking:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/hyperscale/has-anyone-else-picked-up-soviet-union-air-aces-19-t518042.htmlThe profiles in the book are not of the high quality that we see here on sovietwarplanes, I'm afraid. Not only is the artwork very plain-looking, I believe the example in the Hyperscale thread shows errors compared to the photo right beside it:
It appears to me that the profile artist has not represented the outline of the "sharkmouth" correctly (should be white, not red) and the location of the shark's eye seems too low. Furthermore, the aircraft in the photo appears to have a two-colour upper-surface camouflage (not just Olive Drab, as the profile shows, or is the two-colour appearance caused by a thin film of ice? The crewman on the wing might be spraying the aircraft with de-icing solution, I suppose), and the colour demarcation on the rear fuselage between the upper surface and lower surface does not match the photo (or is that just the effect of the shadow of the tailplane?). The colour of the spinner tip (red) is quite different from the red of the stars, too. I know it's just one example from a book which apparently has hundreds of profiles, but if one example chosen at random has obvious mistakes, then it casts doubt on the accuracy of all the rest. Am I wrong about any of this?
John
