About

Claes Sundin, illustrator and author.

Born in 1957 and living in the southern part of Sweden. After having finished four years of studies at the University of Uppsala, he has been active as teacher, marketer, photographer and art director, among others.

Since childhood, Claes has nourished a strong interest in everything concerning aeronautics, particularly when it comes to fighter aircraft of world war two and later. This interest stems from the time when he as a boy of only seven started building and collecting plastic scale models of these aircraft. Simultaneously, he has been an ardent draftsman, making sketches of aircraft for as long as he can remember.

These two hobbies are the seeds of his first book, but it was not until he came in possession of a Macintosh computer that he could start making high quality color profiles.

In 1994 Claes Sundin started out by making his first aircraft profiles, just for fun. After he had finishing his first one hundred profiles, the idea gradually matured that he should try to publish them. To date he has produced over three thousand CGI profiles, mostly of aircraft, but also of WW II tanks. In addition, he has provided aircraft and tank profiles, photo refinement, and artwork for many other books, magazines, bookazines and articles

At the present Claes have produced 22 profile books, 19 of them self-produced and published book. Through his publishing company, Centura Publishing, the personal goal is to produce books of unequalled quality to present the most interesting of profile subjects, all to satisfy the interests of the many profile enthusiasts and modelers throughout the world. Currently Claes is working with four new book, the next, Profile book No 16 is to be published in April 2026.

Centura Publishing

Centura Publishing releases the profile books created by illustrator and author Claes Sundin. Step into the world of aviation and military history through these masterpieces, spanning everything from the Luftwaffe to the Allied forces.