Osprey's Modelling series has reached #44 with this one on the various ways of displaying your model. For some, it is just an afterthought about placing it on a base of some sort or even letting it stand alone. For others, the method of the display is as important as the model itself.

Displays can range from something as simply as a custom base that is fitting to the subject to the more complex shadow box where an entire event is frozen in time and the modeler chooses the perspective.

Author Richard Windrow has a look at all the many ways that a model can be shown. This includes an introduction to the subject with various thoughts on how to display a model, a few interesting diorama settings, then a more in depth look at bases, light boxes, frame displays, false perspectives, and cutaways. The second half of the book is devoted to a gallery of the works of some of the author's friends and those of some more well known modelers. All of the images in the book are superbly done and in full color.

It is an interesting and thought-provoking book that I know most modelers will enjoy reading and browsing through.

January 2010

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