I seen my LHS had the Squadron/Signal Applied Modeling Encyclopedia and thumbed through it and maybe it would update or refresh some of my skills.

If I bought How to build Dioramas book is it somewhat the same.

Happy Modeling
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It is somewhat the same kind of resource, and gives you some good ideas on successful creation and execution of ideas for Dioramas and settings for your models. I think you'd find it worthwhile to have on your workbench.

Gunnie

There are tons of modeling books out there ranging from general skills to making a specific model. Kalmbach books makes a series How to Model cars, ...Ships, ...Airplanes. etc. Some of the Japanese publishers Break it down such as How to model he Tiger Tank. All are good resources. As your skills increase you usually change to reference books with pictures of the real thng that you try to duplicate. I still refer back to some of the modeling skills books I have when I feel a bit rusty or want to try something different.