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.

From Mercury to the moon

Off the sprue: What are your Apollo 11 memories? • OK, I know it’s not fair that half the staff had not landed on Earth yet in 1969, but c’mon you must have seen videos on YouTube!

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Marbling pre-shades a weathered Wessex • Working from a photo puts a helicopter in multiple shades of green

Mercury-Atlas 9 launch • Light, sound create a dynamic diorama of a 1963 liftoff

Shades of white in moonlight • Improving Revell’s 1/8 scale Apollo astronaut, one small step at a time

Improve Tamiya’s APOLLO LUNAR CRAFT • Added styrene gets this toy-like spacecraft mission ready

SCRATCHBUILD LAUNCH PAD 39A • Combine wood, nails, paint, glue, and more for a convincing space shuttle diorama

Space Race in Scale • Back in March, FSM held its first Facebook-run photo contest in search of the best real space models the internet had to offer. Modelers from all over the globe blew us editors away with their creativity. Here are the top 10 winning creations that pushed the limits of earthly modeling.

Heavy metal IS-2 • Aftermarket PE weighs down a battle-tested Red Army tank

Arm and weather a HARRIER • The original V/STOL fighter turns 50 and we celebrate by detailing a GR.7 for Iraq service

Jaxcon 2019 • While just being warm in February seems like a fine idea to anyone north of Atlanta, IPMS/First Coast gives you the perfect excuse to head south in winter with Jaxcon. The annual model contest and show is held at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida. FSM senior editor Aaron Skinner hit the road for the 2019 show and shot these among many other photos. Look for more in Great Scale Modeling 2019 on sale November 19.

HK’s Lancaster is big, really big!

Tamiya M551 Sheridan

Polar Lights Star Trek USS Defiant

Modelcollect B-52H Stratofortress

Revell Bristol Beaufighter TF.X

Horizon Redstone Launcher

Building the bridge to the moon • Each of the 10 manned Gemini missions brought us one small step closer