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.

Simple question, no easy answers

Off the sprue: What’s your worst job ever, and why? • Ha, a trick question and all but one of the staffers passed the test. …Guess the beatings will continue until morale improves!

SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM

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Q&A

Reader tips

NEW PRODUCTS

Dress blues done right • Painting the jacket and trousers of a U.S. Marine

Set yourself up for success • Brush up on basics and win the aircraft modeling game

Catch a wave • Build a one-of-a-kind Star Wars maritime patroller

Decal panels make Excelsior • Aztec pattern and surface decoration spiff up Star Trek ships

GORGO HITS LONDON TOWN • Building and improving Monarch Models’ movie monster

Scratchbuilding USS Kelvin • Reused kit parts and heavy tooling produce a Star Trek ship

NordicCon 2018

U.S. Navy aircraft identification markings — a history • Part 4 of 4: Shades of gray mark the 1980s to today

Dropping flaps and slats • Reposition control surfaces to put a Super Hornet at ease

READER GALLERY

Polished weathering • How to erode a topcoat and reveal underlying camo

Ryefield tackles big-gunned Egyptian T-34 • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits

Lift here! Cessna LC-126A

IBG TKS tankette

Tamiya M3A1 scout car

ICM King of the Night

AMPS 2019 coming soon