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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FineScale Modeler

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Command UPGRADES • Aftermarket parts and scratchbuilding turn a Tamiya 1/35 scale Panzer III Ausf L into a German command tank

Double the Fun • Building a Star Trek shadow box diorama

Lighting the Falcon • Adding extra lights brings the Bandai Perfect Grade Star Wars Millennium Falcon closer to screen accuracy

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Kitbash a GILMORE TANKER • Combine unlikely kits to model a 1/25 scale Ford Model AA truck

Whipping up a ‘GALE’ • Build a 1/32 scale Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate

Strike GUNDAM • Improve a simple mobile suit kit to contest levels

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Arma Hobby P-39 Airacobra Recon • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits

Revell Stranger Things Jim Hopper’s Chevy Blazer

ICM SdKfz 251/1 Ausf B

HobbyBoss TBM-3 Avenger

Atlantis Models P2V-7 Neptune

A royal letdown • Revell’s 1/25 scale 1962 Imperial Crown four-door hardtop missed twice in one year