There are many "how-to" books in today's world of scale modeling, but none has covered the "why's", as well as, the "how-to's"… the artistic approach… until now.
In TANKART , a painting and weathering guide book series, the focus is on taking real-life observations of paint and weathering effects and incorporate the best techniques to replicate them. TANKART 4 German Armor is the second TA book covering this very popular subject, WWII German Armor. Each chapter inside is given more pages to expand on the processes involved, adding more images of the various steps, ideas, and thoughts behind each project or technique used.
I bought this book because I had an old King Tiger kit that was almost built without any paint work. I was quickly disappointed as the author talked about finding the correct paint scheme for his model, but showed no diagrams or photos of the material that he used, and he doesn't show the steps he took in painting the colors he thought were accurate. That is a huge omission as the paint job is a very important aspect. If I had known this ahead of time, I probably would not have purchased this book.