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Irish Air Corps / Re: The Irish Air Corps, An Illustrated Guide.
« on: June 29, 2009, 11:58:49 pm »
While the book may have flaws I've not seen an actual copy yet i doubt if the flaws are the result of the authors as Paddy Cummins in particular is infamously known to be a nit picker of the higest order, not taking from him but he is purist. I 've watched him in action and he does go to some extremes to get the right photo.
being involved in books in an unrelated subject getting the defintite image is allbut impossible, as photography goes paddy is the God of photos .I remember him pending hours just to get the right picture of an Allouette.
Joe Maxwell is decal creator extrordinare and prior to his entry into the market we in modeling circles were confined to a set released by Scale Aircraft Models released to copliment an artictle Tony kearns wrote in 1981 for that publication and that was the bible up to that point..still have acopy and some of the decals
the IAC has been really neglected up to this point,
Tony O'Tooles renditions were top class but the green left him down but in saying that if a guy can almost take over a model publication based on two Irish types kudos for that.
My own examples suffer from similar faults but I'm happy with as they were the zenith of my modeling on IAC Spitfires and Sea fires, Kearns and Cummins were the officioados on the subject for many years and I took their lead.
As soon as the book makes it to shelf it will be given place of honour as these guys have attempted to fill that void that no one else has dared to venture near,
kudos to the guys and can't wait to obtain my copy Paddy always had a theory about the mirror image cammo on the Lysanders and until he can be outrightly proved mistaken I'm goin with him.
McCarrons last book on the subject was a waste of time, his book on war time landings was researched using a lot of Cummins work.....thats the only credibility it had.
I;ll stick with the two boys on this one as it the most serious effort and putting it all down on paper.
Look forward to it... now just to track down a copy locally.
Ive know a lot of the older guys involved in the preservation scene and spent my teens involved in the SEAE DC7C at waterford when it was a complete airframe project, these guys we good, paddy was the supplier of photos, he only takes and submits the the best ,buy it for the photography if nothing else.
being involved in books in an unrelated subject getting the defintite image is allbut impossible, as photography goes paddy is the God of photos .I remember him pending hours just to get the right picture of an Allouette.
Joe Maxwell is decal creator extrordinare and prior to his entry into the market we in modeling circles were confined to a set released by Scale Aircraft Models released to copliment an artictle Tony kearns wrote in 1981 for that publication and that was the bible up to that point..still have acopy and some of the decals
the IAC has been really neglected up to this point,
Tony O'Tooles renditions were top class but the green left him down but in saying that if a guy can almost take over a model publication based on two Irish types kudos for that.
My own examples suffer from similar faults but I'm happy with as they were the zenith of my modeling on IAC Spitfires and Sea fires, Kearns and Cummins were the officioados on the subject for many years and I took their lead.
As soon as the book makes it to shelf it will be given place of honour as these guys have attempted to fill that void that no one else has dared to venture near,
kudos to the guys and can't wait to obtain my copy Paddy always had a theory about the mirror image cammo on the Lysanders and until he can be outrightly proved mistaken I'm goin with him.
McCarrons last book on the subject was a waste of time, his book on war time landings was researched using a lot of Cummins work.....thats the only credibility it had.
I;ll stick with the two boys on this one as it the most serious effort and putting it all down on paper.
Look forward to it... now just to track down a copy locally.
Ive know a lot of the older guys involved in the preservation scene and spent my teens involved in the SEAE DC7C at waterford when it was a complete airframe project, these guys we good, paddy was the supplier of photos, he only takes and submits the the best ,buy it for the photography if nothing else.
