Ok, Verlinden is a good modeller, and quite a prolific too, but this first volume is completely useless.Techniques and modelling tips are very basic (almost poor): just a fiew paragraph, couple of pages and that's it!Diorama next: a lot of pictures, but again, no comments on 'how it's done', just the finished stuff.Overall, it could have been a good book back in the '80s, but today you could easily find much more informations, pictures, tips, step by step guides for free on the internet.For me it has been a complete disillusionment on papaer.