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.

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Off the sprue: Dog person or cat person? Why? • We’re all animal lovers here, but we know that sneaky cats are guilty of knocking more model parts to the floor than dogs, right?

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SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM

Reader tip

NEW PRODUCTS

Royal blue for the Queen • When dressing Elizabeth II, only one color will do

Masking an Iwo Jima gunboat • Take the measure of a modified landing craft

Charge up a CHIEFTAIN • How to improve details on Takom’s British tank

Shine a RAPTOR • Detailing and painting Academy’s stealthy 1/48 scale F-22

READER GALLERY

TAKE TO THE SKIES! • Scratchbuild a 1/144 scale steampunk airship

FIX UP an old car • A vintage Peerless Max M3A1 is updated with aftermarket parts and camouflaged for the Italian front

Detailing A SPIT! • Taking Tamiya’s 1/32 scale Spitfire all the way PART 2: Painting, markings, and weathering

Revell’s Super Hornet a challenge • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits

Academy B-1B Lancer

IBG HMS Ithuriel

Voiio M1A2 SEP V2 Abrams

Panda 9A310M1 TELAR Buk-M1

Zvezda MiG-17

Build to give • Gratitude in modeling goes both ways