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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SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM
NEW PRODUCTS
Super finish on a superdetailed Hind • Thin paint puts a tiger on this tank-hunter
The Merciless KV-1 • Painting and weathering Trumpeter’s Soviet heavy hitter
Gone CAMPIN’ • Scratchbuild a camper shell for your scale pickup
READER GALLERY
ATLANTIC AVENGER • Salt helps weather Italeri’s 1/48 scale TBM for antisubmarine patrols
Got it where it counts • Finish Bandai’s big Millennium Falcon with “used universe” aesthetic
POINT OF NO RETURN • Convert Tamiya’s 1/48 scale F-51 to a Salvadoran Cavalier Mustang
HK Models Avro Lancaster B Mk.I • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits
Zvezda Shchuka-class submarine
HobbyBoss Jackal HMWP
Disappearing act • And for his next trick, Greg will make an XM-57 vanish