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Gerry Anderson's UFO: Technical Manual
Meticulous research and painstaking attention to detail have gone into these multiangle views and cutaways. Skydiver, the futuristic gull-wing cars, the SHADO interceptors, the Space Intruder Detector, and installations such as SHADO's Moonbase complex have never looked so exciting or so realistic. Nick Foreman's CGI illustrations—the first time this technique has been used in an official Gerry Anderson book—are accompanied by detailed notes on design, specification, and performance. Following in the footsteps of The Complete Book of Gerry Anderson's UFO , this book will be a must-have purchase for all true Anderson fans.
48 pages, Hardcover
First published October 1, 2006
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June 22, 2018
This is not really a technical manual. Don't get me wrong. You do get nice illustrations of the various ships from the tv show, and there is a good amount of information about their technical capabilities. However that's part of the book. Every single vehicle also comes with a full page that amounts to a plot synopsis for a UFO episode that is related to the vehicle. If you ask me that is filler that could have been used to disclose some more helpful technical details, a bit more vehicles or maybe non-vehicle items like the SHADO base or equipment and weapons. As it is it's more a vehicle guide than a technical manual.
The illustrations are not cutaways, so you don't get to see any of the inner workings of the vehicles in the show. What you do get are very nice computer generated images that include all the shading and imperfections that make the illustrations look similar to the real thing (or at least like good models). While the vehicles from SHADO's operations get a lot of info the actual Martian UFO is still clouded with secrecy, in spite of it having a couple of pages dedicated to it. Also you don't get anything on Straker's car of other "non-essential" vehicles.
The illustrations are not cutaways, so you don't get to see any of the inner workings of the vehicles in the show. What you do get are very nice computer generated images that include all the shading and imperfections that make the illustrations look similar to the real thing (or at least like good models). While the vehicles from SHADO's operations get a lot of info the actual Martian UFO is still clouded with secrecy, in spite of it having a couple of pages dedicated to it. Also you don't get anything on Straker's car of other "non-essential" vehicles.
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