FineScale Modeler teaches you to build models of aircraft, armor, ships and more. Clear articles show you how to assemble, paint, and finish the latest model kits. Every issue includes unbiased reviews of kits that were built and tested for accuracy, product announcements, tips from the experts, and a gallery of readers’ models.
Expanded how-to + great photo galleries
Off the sprue: The furthest you’ve been from home? • For some, getting away means going to the beach, mountains, a campground, or maybe even a modeling show. All travel is good, right?
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SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM
Reader tips
NEW PRODUCTS • Compiled by Monica Freitag & Aaron Skinner
The doctor will see you now • Unnatural colors make this surgeon’s peepers even more manic
Painting massive destruction • Modeler fires his creativity with layers of acrylics, oils, and pigments
Amp up that old kit • Correct details and add missing panel lines to Monogram’s 1/48 scale Wildcat
How to remove and clean a canopy
Model America’s first tank • Converting Takom’s Renault FT into an M1917 Part 2: Suspension, turret, and paint
Detail and paint a Beech 18 • Revell’s C-45F Expeditor shines up nicely
Keeping the peace • Detailing a Cold War-era nuclear missile and launcher
AMPS 2019
READER GALLERY
Jayhawk to the rescue • How to create an action-oriented helicopter diorama
Airfix Bristol Blenheim Mk.IF
Amodel C-37B Gulfstream
Zvezda Elefant
Zvezda Yak-130
Takom Russian army tank transporter
Airfix Vickers Wellington
MikroMir Blackburn Beverley
IBG 3Ro with 100mm howitzer
Revell Bücker Bü 131D
It’s in the bag, er, pail! • Practice makes perfect, even on tiny subjects