ISAF Vehicles Afghanistan 2007

Mushroom Model Publications has produced a large number of aircraft related books. Only recently, have they started to also do some on armor subjects. This new book is one of those. It is in a 11 ¾” x 8 ¼” soft-cover format of 96 pages.

The book is a photo album of the International Security and Assistance Force vehicles serving in Afghanistan in 2007, showing the wide range of vehicles used, their color schemes and their markings, both service and theatre-specific.

Dick Taylor is a British Army officer with wide experience in AFV operations, who has served in many parts of the world. On his 2007 second trip to Afghanistan, he took many photos of the ISAF vehicles he saw there, and made detailed notes of the colors and markings. This book is the result.

Many different vehicles are shown, from LandRovers to fully armed and tracked APC’s, in service with 20 different nations, from Belgium to the USA. Basic data for all vehicles is given, and national and ISAF markings are described and illustrated. All photos are in color.

Military enthusiasts will see many fascinating details of the vehicles, not the least “in-theatre” modifications suck as wire cutters fitted on many. It will be an invaluable reference source for military enthusiasts and scale modelers.

On the back cover of the book are 2 forthcoming other armor books announced. “The Men Inside the Metal, The British AFV Crewman in WWII” and “Warpaint, Colours and Markings of British Army Vehicles 1903-2003”.

I want to thank Dr. Roger M. Wallsgrove, Editor-in-Chief of MMP for this sample.