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Old 10th February 2018, 10:38
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Good on you Nick. Great forum but sick of these ranting trolls. On to more worthwhile discussion - any book projects underway?
Paul, I’ve no problem with people not liking Osprey’s design, that’s valid consuner reaction. It’s the futility of raising it here that irks me when the obvious people to tell are Osprey themselves — I’m pretty sure they have email and, unlike us, they are in a position to do something about the issue.

Book projects? None, unless you count the translation work I’ve done for Theo Boiten and Rod McKenzie’s Nachtjagd War Diaries series. I don’t think the public is ready for my completely unillustrated blockbuster “Total Failure: Luftwaffe Airborne Jamming 1942–44”!
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Old 12th February 2018, 14:58
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...My main area of interest is the SCW and I’m not holding my breath for any new Osprey title there!
Good afternoon Orwell,

I'm interested in the SCW, too.

Do you think we will ever know the final offical total of Lakeev or all decimals of the shared kills of Gritsewets ?

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Old 14th February 2018, 16:19
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Book projects? None, unless you count the translation work I’ve done for Theo Boiten and Rod McKenzie’s Nachtjagd War Diaries series. I don’t think the public is ready for my completely unillustrated blockbuster “Total Failure: Luftwaffe Airborne Jamming 1942–44”!
Hey, I will buy it ! I am sure the world will survive if that book replace one of the hundred books produced each year in the world about more or less obscure SS units. At least it will tell something new.
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... My main area of interest is the SCW and I’m not holding my breath for any new Osprey title there!
I hope that one day OSPREY will publish a Duel volume about Fiat CR32 vs Polikarpov I-15/I-16.

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Old 16th February 2018, 21:03
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I hope that one day OSPREY will publish a Duel volume about Fiat CR32 vs Polikarpov I-15/I-16.

Michael
Agreed. I’d settle for a Bf109 vs I16 too. I’ve requested both of those a couple of times via their website request a title option.
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Old 16th February 2018, 21:09
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Can you tell me if more I-15's or more I-16's served in the Spanish Civil War ?

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Old 17th February 2023, 09:37
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Ivan Lakeev's Spanish Civil War score is sometimes indicated as 12+16sh.
https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=1172#not
The first 2+2sh kills are known.
http://www.soviet-aces-1936-53.ru/abc/l/lakeev.htm
That makes it quite likely, that he's the top scorer of the calendar year 1937, see also:
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/showth...ear#post258379
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Re: OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES layout: never change a winning team

I work in book publishing so a little perspective if I may. When the mail or telephone were the only way to reach us, we got requests for various books, meaning ideas for future titles.

These were compiled for future consideration. Sometimes, a few ideas were selected and the books were produced.

The internet has created two problems:

1) The utterly fake idea that being uncivil was OK.

2) One poster asking for something or even two, and us not following through and producing a book based on two suggestions meant we "weren't listening."

Since there are no, or few actual, real names being used, this creates a bad precedent. As a moderator on our message board, I see advertising links embedded in honest sounding questions. Such posts are immediately deleted.

A lack of a human voice or signed letter creates a situation where people are disconnected. I do not regard this as a good thing.

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Re: OSPREY AIRCRAFT OF THE ACES layout: never change a winning team

Had a look at the cover of OSPREY's "Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West" which will be published at the German amazon in May.
The artwork really looks awesome!
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Had a look at the cover of OSPREY's "Bf 109 Jabo Units in the West" which will be published at the German amazon in May.
The artwork really looks awesome!
There’s a separate thread about this book.
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