Abteilung 502 publishes picture-led titles spanning military vehicles and modelling practice. The books listed here deal with armour, among them a photographic volume on the tanks of the German Wehrmacht in the Second World War. This is reference material rather than instruction: photographs and visual documentation that a builder works from when settling on a vehicle version, its markings and how worn it should be.
With wartime tanks, credibility rests chiefly on which individual vehicle and which period you are modelling - production batches differed in running gear, side skirts and equipment, and a vehicle in 1941 looked nothing like one in 1944. Kits sit in military vehicle model kits, most of them in 1:35, and further type monographs and photo albums in reference books on real machines.
