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.
Weathering is finishing
FineScale Modeler
SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM
NEW PRODUCTS
How to apply foil • Tips and techniques for perfect natural-metal finishes
Detailing and finishing WARSHIPS • PART 2: Strategic detailing
An American expact in Sweden • Mustang’s new uniform shows a hint of the old
READER GALLERY
HOW DISTRESSING! • Add a unique finish to a 1/24 scale Bug
FROM ANOTHER WORLD • Model a crashed UFO
Commit a perfect Marder • Follow the clues to paint and weather an armored vehicle
Tamiya’s fabulous new Phantom • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits
Heading for disaster • The airplane from Tenet might not make it, but this diorama does