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Dear Model & Aircraft Greyhound Books Newsletter n°1 Dear Model & Aircraft enthusiast, About six months ago, we presented our own book label: Greyhound Books, with our first two publications. Our goal is to offer several lines of aircraft- and modelling books. To achie- ve this, we have formed a great team of photographers, model- lers, spotters, copywriters. We have had a lot of people wonde- ring about our future plans, so we believe a periodical newsletter every now and then might be a good idea to keep you informed. Right, we hope you will enjoy this first newsletter and find it useful! Nico Deboeck Greyhound Books Contents: Who is Greyhound Books and info about our first publications Phantom photos that didn’t make the book Next in the detail series: the Sepecat Jaguar Modellers @ work: Phantom-models A legend in our team: Willy Peeters Modelbook n° 2: a first look at the content Great photos from our friends Greyhound Books’ first publication: F-4 E/F & RF-4E Phantom II www.greyhound-books.com Photo: Peter Anthoni
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Dear Model & Aircraft
Greyhound Books Newsletter n°1
Dear Model & Aircraft enthusiast,
About six months ago, we presented our own book label: Greyhound Books, with our fi rst two publications. Our goal is to off er several lines of aircraft- and modelling books. To achie-ve this, we have formed a great team of photographers, model-lers, spotters, copywriters. We have had a lot of people wonde-ring about our future plans, so we believe a periodical newsletter every now and then might be a good idea to keep you informed. Right, we hope you will enjoy this fi rst newsletter and fi nd it useful!
Nico DeboeckGreyhound Books
Contents:
Who is Greyhound Books and info about our fi rst publications
Phantom photos that didn’t make the book
Next in the detail series: the Sepecat Jaguar
Modellers @ work: Phantom-models
A legend in our team: Willy Peeters
Modelbook n° 2: a fi rst look at the content
Great photos from our friends
Greyhound Books’ fi rst publication: F-4 E/F & RF-4E Phantom II
www.greyhound-books.com
Photo: Peter Anthoni
Who is Greyhound Books?Greyhound Books is a label of C2A, a company active in communication & editing. Next to our daily work, we love aircraft and scale modeling. In the past we have had the opportunity to work for several publications in this area, but it was our dream to make our own books. Although many aviation books have been published so far, we often felt frustra-ted by the lack of details. On the other hand, we don’t want to make our books too complex. A technical manual isn’t that much fun to go through. So, the idea was to get a good mix and we created the Detail Series: it’s a walk-around, offers a good view of the cockpit, shows some great action shots and a view in the maintenance hangar.
The first thing we did was write down a shortlist of aircraft we wanted in our series. Man, there’s a lot of work yet to be done! In the end, we selected the F-4 E/F Phantom II. This magnificant aircraft celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and is still very active indeed! Some of us made plans to go to Germany and Greece to take photos, while others went cave-diving in their archives to get all the necessary information. The end result looks like this:
The walk-around-section of the book: large, clear photos show every detail of the aircraft. We explain what can be seen on every photo and how the aircraft is operated. In all the walk-around is 56 pages of the book.
Not every Phantom II has the same cockpit. In 14 pages, we show the cockpit in all its detail, including the ejection seat in and out of the cockpit.
Action! the Phantom II during operations, showing all aspects of its capabilities (36 pages), including Greek, Ger-man, USAF, Japanese, Israeli and Turkish Phantoms.
The Phantom needs extensive maintenance. We take a look at the aircraft with panels, gun, engines and spine removed...
JP Van Regenmortel builds the ultimate F-4E in 1/32 !
When Jean-Pierre Van Regenmortel got his copy of Detail Series n°1 on the F-4 E/F & RF-4E, he was very motivated to build Tamiya’s F-4E and modify it into an F-4 P.I. 2000 (Pegasus I) upgraded air-craft. The photos in the book were very helpful to super-detail the cockpit, canopies, landing gear and the features specific for this update: the chin pod, snsors on the air intakes, IFF antennas on the nose and antennas on the vertical tail and parachute housing.
Jean-Pierre is a very experienced modeller who has won a great deal of model contests with his 1/32 scale kits. He has made some very spectacular models of tiger F-16s, F/A-18s and Tor-nado. For this Phantom II, he took a closer look at the weathering of the often used Greek F-4s. A closer look at the model even shows the footmarks of the maintenance crew on top of the wings and fuselage, exactly as can be seen in the book!
More photos of this F-4 II can be found on our website www.greyhound-books.com !
How about the cockpit details of this kit?
Our next publication in the Model Master-series:
Propeller-driven aircraft
Our very first publication was a model book with tips and tricks on building jet aircraft models. In all, we presented 6 models with their step-by-step construction. This se-cond model book shows the same with propeller-driven aircraft mo-dels.. only a little more in detail.More than 20 models have been
built for this publication! Our top-builders are Dirk Peeters, Danny Stabel, Jean-Pierre Van Regenmortel, François Laloux, Phil Hale, and many more. Some of the models that have been built: Focke Wulf D-9 & Me 109 K-4 (Revell, 1/32), Avenger (Trumpeter 1/32), Sea Fury (Fisher Models 1/32), Skyraider (Tamiya 1/48), Mus-tang & Thunderbolt (1/72 Revell), SeaFire (Airfix 1/48), Wy-vern (Trumpeter 1/72), Ju 52 (Revell 1/48) and many more!
This book has 48 pages and features some of Willy Peeters’ super cartoons!!
This book will be available soon at around 12 euro ( £ 8) For more info: www.greyhound-books.com
1/48 Typhoon by Danny StabelMe 109 K-4 1/32 (Revell) by Nico Deboeck
Our next publication in the detail-series:
The Sepecat Jaguarby Willy Peeters
JaguarDetail-series
A detailed view of the Sepecat JaguarWilly Peeters
Greyhound Books
When I was a kid, there was one man who was setting new standards when it came to air-craft photography for the serious modeler and aircraft-enthusiast: Willy Peeters. His Lock On pu-blications are known all around the world and have been sold in thousends of copies.
Today, Greyhound Books has the honour of welcoming the fi rst publication by this talented pho-tographer, artist, graphic desig-ner and modeler: a detailed view of the Sepecat Jaguar.
This 52-page book is fi lled with all the details of the aircraft, in-cluding cockpit, landing gear, wings,... It also shows the Jaguar in maintenance in service with the RAF and IAF.
The action-pages show some very interesting photographs of low level fl ying Jaguars and some ex-tremely rare shots of the Jaguar during aircraft-carrier trials!
Similar to the PhantomII book, the Jaguar book comes with a very handy book-mark (with cartoon by Willy Peeters) that enables you to navigate easily through the pages.
This book will be available soon at around 16 euro ( £ 11) For more info: www.greyhound-books.com
This book will be available soon at around 12 euro ( £ 8) For more info: www.greyhound-books.com
You would like to order a copy of one of these publications? Send an e-mail to
Supershots from the Houquet brothersThe Houquet brothers Tom and Wim are what you could call serious aircraft spotters and enthusiasts... We received a few stunning shots from them by e-mail. Don’t be surprised if you see their names in some of our future books. This photo shows you their talent.
If you have an idea for a book, a hint for a modeling tech-nique, a thousand photos of an aircraft, the link to a great website, photos of your favo-rite model, a question, the cell-phone number of Miss Univer-se or something else you want to share with us, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected]
