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.

As complicated as you make it

FineScale Modeler

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Big-time LIGHTNING • Building a 1/32 Zoukei-Mura Mitsubishi J2M3 Raiden

A PHOENIX RISES • Making a famous movie aircraft from a C-119 kit and scratchbuilt parts

Derelict WALKER • Combine armor-modeling techniques to weather an abandoned AT-AT

A NEW TRUCK for a new Army • Remake the Revell 1980 Jeep Honcho into a Cold War warrior

MIDWEST SCALE MADNESS

NORDICCON

MILITARY MINIATURE SOCIETY OF ILLINOIS

Armor and weather an IDF D9 • Photo-etched metal slat armor and myriad Ammo products complete a Meng 1/35 scale bulldozer

Making the GRADE • A 1/35 scale World War II bulldozer presents challenges worth leveling

ICM HS 123A Legion Condor • FSM experts build and evaluate new kits

Trumpeter M915 gun truck

Italeri Semovente M43 da 105/25 Bassotto

Reskit MD-3A “Mule” tow tractor

Tamiya Honda Prelude (BF1)

Double-kit debut • Aurora wasn’t known for scale auto models, and the company wanted to change that