FineScale Modeler – October 2019

FineScale Modeler (ISSN 0277-979X, USPS No. 679-590) is published monthly (except for June & August) by Kalmbach Media Co., 21027 Crossroads Circle, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187.

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October 2019 /// Vol 37 /// No 8

CONTENTS

FEATURES

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14 Form & Figure

Using unnatural colors for creepy eyes

JOE HUDSON

16 Airbrushing & Finishing

Painting massive destruction

AARON SKINNER

18 Amp up that old kit

Corect inaccuracies, add panel lines to

a classic Monogram Wildcat

JAMES GREEN

26 Model America's first tank

Part 2

Converting Takom's Renault FT

into an M1917: Suspension,

turret, and paint

RON PONIATOWSKI

32 Making a Revell Expeditor

Detail and paint a Beech 18

STEVE EVANS

36 Keeping the peace

Detailing a Cold War-era nuclear

missile and launcher

MIKE DEL VECCHIO

42 Show gallery

2019 AMPS

FSM STAFF

50 Jayhawk to the rescue

How to create an action-oriented

helicopter diorama

THOMAS NEUSS

KIT REVIEWS

54 Airfix Bristol Blenheim Mk.IF

56 Amodel C-37B Gulfstream

57 Zvezda Elefant

58 Zvezda Yak-

59 Takom Russian army tank

transporter

60 Airfix Vickers Wellington

61 MikroMir Blackburn Beverley

62 IBG 3Ro with 100mm howitzer

63 Revell Bücker Bü 131D

IN EVERY ISSUE

5 Editor’s Page

7 Scale Talk/Reader Tips/Q&A

10 New Products

48 Reader Gallery

64 Classified Marketplace

65 Hobby Shop Directory

65 Advertiser Index

66 Final Details

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