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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Making a Mining Guild TIE FIGHTE • Employ easy modifications to create a unique starfighter

PUNKMAN • Build, paint, and weather a 1/35 scale resin mecha like you would a figure miniature

Enhancing models with 3D PRINTING • Conversion parts and details civilize an Ma.K fighting suit

INTERIOR DETAIL for a Starship • A little sleight of hand hints at cabin detail for USS Voyager

Build a 3D-PRINTED SUPERHERO • Parts prep makes all the difference

Call up a HAMMERHEAD CORVETTE • Build a smashing Rogue One Star Destroyer diorama

Improving HALCYON’S classic ALIENS APC • Make a vintage kit better with detailing and painting

Improve Airfix’s SKYHAWK • Minor fixes and dropped flaps for a 1/72 scale A-4B

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Building Israel’s first Shermans • Kitbash a piecemeal tank in 1/35 scale

Spaghetti for a Fiat • Italeri’s big-scale Fiat 500 Abarth makes a fine subject for a dive into wiring and plumbing model cars

IN THE DETAILS

Fine Molds F-4E Phantom (Early) “Vietnam War”

Takom T29 heavy tank

Roden SPAD XIII (Early)

AMT 1970 Ford Galaxie taxi

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