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Books like Fly Electric

If you loved Fly Electric by Dave Chinery, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Models and Crafts & Hobbies.

Models Crafts & Hobbies

Top related books to Fly Electric

Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

Modelling Postwar Tanks — Jerry Scutts

Modelling Postwar Tanks

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Model Steam Turbines – How to Design and Build Them – The ‘Model Engineer’ Series, No. 23 — H. H. Harrison

Model Steam Turbines – How to Design and Build Them – The ‘Model Engineer’ Series, No. 23

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Pacific Profiles Volume 4 Allied Fighters: Vought F4U Corsair Series: Solomons Theatre 1943-1944 — Michael Claringbould

Pacific Profiles Volume 4 Allied Fighters: Vought F4U Corsair Series: Solomons Theatre 1943-1944

Michael Claringbould

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Origami Book for Beginners A Step-by-Step Introduction to the Japanese Art of Paper Folding for Kids & Adults — Yuto Kanazawa

Origami Book for Beginners A Step-by-Step Introduction to the Japanese Art of Paper Folding for Kids & Adults

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

The Brick Testament Stories from the Book of Genesis — Brendan Powell Smith

The Brick Testament Stories from the Book of Genesis

Brendan Powell Smith

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

How to Make Model Soldiers — Philip O. Stearns

How to Make Model Soldiers

Philip O. Stearns

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Bren Gun Carrier Britain’s Universal War Machine — Robert Jackson

Bren Gun Carrier Britain’s Universal War Machine

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Build Your Own Human Skeleton — Taschen

Build Your Own Human Skeleton

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines — Yoshihito Isogawa

The LEGO Technic Idea Book: Simple Machines

Yoshihito Isogawa

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Epic LEGO Adventures with Bricks You Already Have Build Crazy Worlds Where Aliens Live on the Moon, Dinosaurs Walk Among Us, Scientists Battle Mutant Bugs and You Bring Their Hilarious Tales to Life — Sarah Dees

Epic LEGO Adventures with Bricks You Already Have Build Crazy Worlds Where Aliens Live on the Moon, Dinosaurs Walk Among Us, Scientists Battle Mutant Bugs and You Bring Their Hilarious Tales to Life

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Beautiful LEGO® — Mike Doyle

Beautiful LEGO®

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Build Up Your LEGO Winter Village Christmas Town 2 — David Younger

Build Up Your LEGO Winter Village Christmas Town 2

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

African MiGs – Madagascar to Zimbabwe Migs and Sukhois in Service in Sub-Saharan Africa — Tom Cooper

African MiGs – Madagascar to Zimbabwe Migs and Sukhois in Service in Sub-Saharan Africa

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Cuban Migs The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force — Hélio Higuchi

Cuban Migs The Defenders of Castro’s Air Force

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

LEGO Train Projects 7 Creative Models — Charles Pritchett

LEGO Train Projects 7 Creative Models

Charles Pritchett

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Modelling and Painting World War II German Military Figures — Michael Farnworth

Modelling and Painting World War II German Military Figures

Michael Farnworth

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Model Car Builder No. 9 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Feature Cars! — Roy Sorenson

Model Car Builder No. 9 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, and Feature Cars!

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Radio Control Giant Scale Aeroplanes — David Boddington

Radio Control Giant Scale Aeroplanes

David Boddington

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Researching American-made Toy Soldiers 32 Years of Articles — Richard O’Brien

Researching American-made Toy Soldiers 32 Years of Articles — Richard O’Brien

Richard O'Brien

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Scale Model Life — Bruce Kimball

Scale Model Life

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Flying Catalinas The Consoldiated Pby Catalina in WWII — Andrew Hendrie

Flying Catalinas The Consoldiated Pby Catalina in WWII

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

British Fiji Class Cruisers and Their Derivatives — Conrad Waters

British Fiji Class Cruisers and Their Derivatives

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Styrene Modeling How to Build, Paint, and Finish Realistic Styrene Models — Bob Hayden

Styrene Modeling How to Build, Paint, and Finish Realistic Styrene Models

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

Titanic and Her Sisters Olympic and Britannic — Peter Davies-Garner

Titanic and Her Sisters Olympic and Britannic

Peter Davies-Garner

Themes: Models • Crafts & Hobbies

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Models, Crafts & Hobbies — the same threads that run through Fly Electric by Dave Chinery. Among the authors featured: Jerry Scutts, H. H. Harrison, Michael Claringbould, Yuto Kanazawa, and others.

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