Introduction

Colour & Scale 05 is on the Potez 63-11, the most numerous aircraft in service in France during 1940. Paperback, written by Marek Rys and Teodor Liviu Morosanu, 16 pages.

Colour & Scale 05 Potez 63-11

Some background: the Potez 63-11, was a derivative of the Potez 630, a French multi-role twin-engine aircraft that served similar roles to the Bf-110 and the Fokker G-1.

The 63-11 had a redesigned fuselage with a glasshouse nose to house an observer for the army cooperation and observation role.  Some 700 were delivered to the Armee de l'air.  A relatively modern aircraft intended for an archaic role, the underpowered aircraft suffered the highest loss rate of any French aircraft then in service, with some 220 lost in combat or abandoned on the ground.

The book fully lives up to its title.  There's no historical data nor operational information included.  The first three pages consist of port, starboard, ventral and dorsal scale drawings.  The remaining 13 pages are large captioned color plates of 19 different aircraft.   Seventeen of those are simply profile views, the other two being shown in 3-views, one of them with both starboard and port renderings.  The colors are called out in the captions, but there are no chips to match to.

As  there are no surviving aircraft to measure the drawings against, there's no way to ascertain the accuracy of them, other than to say they look like a Potez 63-11.  The same goes for the camouflage patterns, but again, there's nothing better I'm aware of to gauge the accuracy by,  but for 11.99 on Amazon, if you've got the Azure kit  or even the ancient Heller kit in your stash, its a useful reference.

Thanks to Casemate for providing this copy for review.  Please remember to mention to Casemate, MMP Books, and retailers that you saw this product here - on Aeroscale.