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.

Back to a little of everything

Off the sprue: Who has been your best teacher? Why? • Life, it has been said, is our greatest teacher. But sometimes, we experience individuals who set the bar a bit higher, motivating us to do better.

Finescale Modeler

Q&A

SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM

Reader tips

New enamel paint maker offers wide range

Create an emotive face • A picture-perfect bust is worth a thousand words — if you get the eyes and skin tone right

AMERICAN TANK • Converting Takom’s Renault FT into an M1917 Part 1: The hull and nothing but the hull

Renault FT versus M1917

Intruder Alert • Make Italeri’s EA-6A into a folded-wing wonder

Refine a Büssing-NAG 4500 • Straightening jigs and detailed washes take this little-known truck to the contest table

Mad City Show 2019

Schürzen from yogurt lids • Upgrade an old-school tank with scale-thin, inexpensive skirts

A do-it-yourself cleaning pot • Recycled materials make airbrush service easy

READER GALLERY

Eduard’s new-tool Tempest a hit

Panda M1296 Stryker Dragoon

Azur-FrRom SNCASE SE 535 Mistral

Italeri T-34/85

Ryefield Schützenpanzer Puma

MiniArt Fl 282 V-23 “Hummingbird”

Italeri The Colosseum

Sword McDonnell F3H-2 Demon

Wingnut Wings Halberstadt CL.II

MiniArt Soviet Ball Tank “Sharotank”

Revell Antonov An-225 Mriya

Dora Wings Percival Proctor Mk.III

Modeling 101 • Editor’s note: We hear a lot at club meetings about teaching today’s youngsters to build models. Well, Michael Farina, a Virginia teacher, has taken the challenge seriously. Here’s his story.