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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Forget the devil, the joy is in the details

Off the sprue: What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? • Are there words of wisdom that have been offered to you that have stuck with you and guide your decisions or life choices?

SCALE TALK • Your voice in FSM

Q&A

NEW PRODUCTS

Winterizing a jeep • Post-shading and weathering for a U.S. Army workhorse

Paint a tawny wyvern • Serpentine skin from just five colors and many layers

Add flash to ACADEMY’S THUNDER • Improve a Korean self-propelled gun with aftermarket and scratchbuilt details

Superdetailing a Knighthawk • Pull out all the stops on Academy’s 1/35 scale MH-60S Seahawk

Paint a RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP • Shading and weathering the ill-fated Knyaz Suvorov

READER GALLERY

Air-to-air RENDEZVOUS • Turn a tanker boom into a display support

Join the hunt • Open and detail the trunk of the AMT Supernatural ’67 Impala

Shine up a SHOOTING STAR • A metal finish and orange reserve band for Sword’s U.S. Navy F-80

Arma’s cool Wildcat • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits

Dora Wings Dewoitine D.500

Zvezda T-28

Italeri F-86E Sabre

Kitty Hawk Ural-4320 and APA-5D

“I said reverse!” • A not-so-graceful landing for Italeri’s SdKfz