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

SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM

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OLD SCHOOL MODELING • Scratchbuild details for the new Airfix 1/48 scale Buccaneer

LEVEL UP your scale modeling • Don’t leave your model half finished — make a base

DRAWING INSPIRATION • Model a scale auto that looks like it emerged from an anime cel

READER GALLERY

MERDC demystified • How to use an airbrush and hand-painting for the 1970s four-color camouflage

Kitbash a better HUEY • Improve Monogram’s venerable UH-1 with a HobbyBoss nose and tail

THE EYES have it • Practice painting whites, irises, and pupils on a bust

Improve an IBG CENTAUR ’DOZER • How-to build a better 1/72 scale engineering vehicle

Trumpeter TBD-1 Devastator • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits

Takom Tiger I Ausf E

MPC 1970 and 1971 Dodge Challengers • Don’t look for these rarities to ever be reissued from the original molds