The Chieftain's Random Musings Thread

The_Chieftain: Here's the Amazon review I caught on Sherman. Another review made a similar observation. The reason I gave this book three stars has nothing to do with the work itself, it is based solely on the actual current editions that have been released by Echo Point Books and Media (Sherman and Stuart). These are not nearly half the print quality of the original published volumes. They were clearly scanned from original books as on some pages you can see distortion due to the binding not allowing the pages to get completely flush with the surface of the scanner/copier. They are printed on very poor quality paper and the ink bleeds a little as a result. The pictures and drawings are not as clear as on the original print books from Presidio. I had most of the Hunnicutt volumes and compared this with others I have from Presidio which is how I arrived at this conclusion with regards to the print quality.

If you are a modeler, this book would normally be a gold mine. However, due to the poor quality of some of the images and the questionable scale of some of the drawings, this book might not be worth getting.

While I am happy to see someone making an effort to bring these volumes back to print so they can be purchased again, I do wish the current publisher would make an effort to print a better quality product. Granted these new print volumes go for far less than the original Presidio volumes go for currently, $70 for a soft bound book of questionable print quality is not really a bargain at the end of the day.   Well, I've told them I have a lot of the original photos, and if they really have to scan (which doesn't surprise me, I doubt Hunnicutt kept microfiche of the originals or anything, or even if he did, that they survived), it might be worth sacrificing an original copy to get the pages flat. We'll see how they do.