REVI is a Czech aviation quarterly devoted to flying history, to the aircraft and to the people who flew them. For a modeller it is one of very few places where aviation is covered in Czech and in depth, and the photographs that accompany the historical articles often serve directly as build reference - particularly the archive images of machines in routine service. Issues are listed individually by number, with no link to a volume year, so a run is easy to work through backwards. Because the mix of articles changes, the contents of each are given on that issue.
REVI is not a method title - you will not find instructions for spraying a camouflage. Its value lies elsewhere: in researched facts about machines, units and individuals, the things a builder needs settled before choosing paint and decals. Techniques come from modelling literature; reference and context come from a history periodical.
Archive images in history magazines usually catch aircraft in routine service rather than posed for publicity. That is where you can read how dirty the undercarriage got, where paint had worn through and how machines were actually marked as opposed to how regulations said they should be.
To build one pilot's machine you need to know when and where it served and what markings it carried at that moment. An article about the unit or the operation settles this far better than the shorthand notes in a kit instruction sheet.
Issues carry sequential numbers with no link to a volume year, which makes them easy to search. Collectors generally work backwards and find it worth keeping a list of what they already hold.
On Czechoslovak aviation a domestic periodical is often the only place the subject is treated in depth. Foreign publications mention these types and units in passing and without access to local archives.
Other monographs sit in reference books on real machines, and the whole section one level up is modelling literature.
