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Great Modelling Resource

Mick

Mick

SOH-CM-2025
Recently my modeling partner David stumbled onto a great resource: Free Ginter books (Naval Fighters and Air Force Legends series) in your choice of digital formats.

It's a page on the Internet Archive, which seems to be a legitimate site, with twenty-three books listed. The subjects are American military aircraft of the late 1940s through around the 1970s or 80s. There are prototypes and in-service aircraft ranging from the very obscure to the very well known, mainly Navy and Marine types but a couple Air Force or multi-service types, the C-124 Globemaster and the Convair twins.

Most modelers will be familiar with the Ginter books, but if you're not, they are heavily illustrated in fine detail, but also include extensive history of the planes, excellent references for modeling and very interesting as reading material for airplane buffs.

The list seems to be getting a little shorter. The XB-51 book was on it when we started that project but now it's gone, and there may have been a couple others that disappeared, so grab what you want now.

Here's the link:

https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22aircraft%22+Ginter


 
Great site, Thanks for finding it.
You can find the XB-51, by doing a search for aircraft XB-51.
Just searching for 'Aircraft' finds 75,000+ aircraft.
:jump:
 
zswobbie1 said:
Great site, Thanks for finding it.
You can find the XB-51, by doing a search for aircraft XB-51.
Just searching for 'Aircraft' finds 75,000+ aircraft.
:jump:
Click to expand...

Great! I'll have to see what else might be hidden like that! Now... what are we thinking about for future projects...???
 
The Ginter books are all downloadable, as is the XB-51 I found there.
However, not all of the others are downloadable, but, by signing up (free) on the sight, they can be 'borrowed'.

Some great books, postcards and plenty of other gems to be found.
 
I went to the Ginter Books site and looked for anything listed there (except for a few so obscure and unsuccessful that even I can't summon up any interest in them) and found three (plus the XB-51 you found) that aren't on that original page. Those are the Grumman AF Guardian, McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo and North American F-86H Sabre. I also got reminded of the many Ginter books that I'd really like to have, but they're too pricey for me to buy every one that attracts me. I've bought a number of Ginter titles over the years but not as many as I'd like to have.
 
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