FineScale Modeler

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.

HAVE YOU EVER ADMIRED A MODEL AND WONDERED “HOW?”

FineScale Modeler

Bulge stirs up childhood memories

Off the sprue: As a kid, what was your dream job? • So, basically, what did you want to be when you grew up? That’s assuming any of us really grow up.

SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM

Q&A

NEW PRODUCTS

I had a bad feeling about those stickers • How to turn self-adhesive labels into decals

Shivering on snow • Make a winter figure look even colder with a base of icy muck

“Rescue us? No need!” • Them’s fightin’ words at the Siege of Bastogne

Ambush a Jagdpanzer IV • How to camouflage a late-war tank hunter

Building Dragon’s Jagdpanzer IV

Battle of the Bulge • FSM called out for models of the Ardennes Counteroffensive over social media and received these amazing works. Turns out that many modelers are historians and artists wrapped into one.

ON THIN ICE • Missing kit parts? You can still build a great diorama!

A Space Odyssey • Build and detail Moebius Models’ 1/144 scale Discovery One

VENGEANCE in blue • Building Special Hobby’s 1/72 scale Vultee A-35 in a unique finish

EagleQuest 2019

This is one helluva big Hellcat! • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits

Ryefield M4A3E8 Sherman

Polar Lights USS Discovery and USS Shenzhou

Kitty Hawk MH-60L Black Hawk

IBG Crusader Mk.I

Classified Marketplace

Local Hobby Shop Directory

We have contact! • Close encounters of the scale kind

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