i am looking for good ww2 uniform detailed prints in color US army, marines, brittish, german, etc,something along the line of osprey for aircraft.

How detailed is "detailed"?

As a relatively cheap introduction to uniforms the Osprey Men-At-War series is a good place to start.

i have almost all the osprey ww2 aircraft series and their templates in color usually in the mid section of the booklet are very good reference for modelers.Are there others?

Hi Concord do great books they have great colour plates they are part of the Dragon Corp so are well written and the artwork is great, dont quote me but i think they are a little bit cheaper than Man at war series

If you're familiar with Osprey's aircraft books, then you should be aware that they publish many other series. I suggest browsing their website and looking for the "Men-At-Arms", "Warrior" and "Elite" series.




Should read "Men-At-Arms".

Concord's books are great, but sometimes you need to know what you're looking for.

Once again, how detailed is "detailed". I still don't really know what you're looking for. I have many "uniformology" titles in my own collection, but cannot recommend anything unless I know what you're looking for...

i want to start a collection of bookelts for ww2 battle uniforms which encompass all the powers at war of the era for which we have the model figures available.

*sigh*

Okay, well then for the 3rd time have a look at the Osprey Publishing website at their "Men-At-Arms", "Warrior" and "Elite" series. The MAA series covers all the major participants in WWII, and many smaller ones (e.g. Brazil) which have largely been ignored by other publishers.

The MAA series will give you a good overview of the subject's history, organisational structures, uniforms, equipment and arms. The photos are generally good quality, and the average number of plates is 8-10, with 2-4 figures per plate. In my opinion, they're relatively good value for money, and although I have several more detailed books in my own library I continually refer back to these for quick references.

Concord Publishing, as also mentioned above, is another good, relatively cheap, quick referene for modellers. They are however predominantly (period) photo guides, with little text other than captions, so I find the photos more inspirational than for uniform reference. The plates however are good. As another poster mentioned above they're also the publishing arm of Dragon Models, and the plate art is frequently shared with model box art - particularly now as DML try to produce figures capable of being featured as stand alone in competition to resin figures (apparently everyone is to busy moaning about more pointing Germans in an uncoesive set to notice this fact!).

Stephen Andrew, a regular Osprey and Concord (if memory serves), has also recently released a good reference for German Uniforms. I'm confident we'll see more titles from him soon.

Now if you're able to spend much more money on a library in such a generalist approach (I recommend you specialise if you're going to buy the more detailed specialist books), then look through the catalogues of Histoire & Collections, The Crowood Press (their "Europa Militaria" series in particular is very useful and well-priced), Schiffer Military History, and Motorbooks International to name but 4 publishers. For specific titles, have a look at the reviews listed under my Armorama profile page - I was one of those who started citing references in reviews on Armorama (similar to how Ashley does it on PMMS).

For German uniform books I high recommend books authored by Brian L. Davis. My copies were published back in the 1970's and I inherited them from a dear Uncle, so I have no idea if they're still in print.

Hope that helps.

that more than helps,step by step i'll start building my library the way i did with my aircraft books,this together with the recent videos will upgrade my figure painting standards, thank you very much.