36 FineScale Modeler September 2019SHOW GALLERY
RICHARD SLIWKA
WARRENSBURG, MISSOURI
Richard built Niko’s 1/700 scale
U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker
Eastwind out of the box except for
the rigging. Using Testors Model
Master acrylics, he painted the
ship in the camouflage it wore in
World War II, when it ferried U.S.
troops to capture the last German
weather station in Greenland.
VLADO JOVIC
GREENFIELD, WISCONSIN
Vlado’s additions to Academy’s
1/32 scale F-16CG include after-
market wheels, wheel bays,
exhaust nozzle, weapons, target-
ing pod, and angle-of-attack and
pitot tubes as well as scratchbuilt
fuselage plates and magnets to
hold the weapons on the pylons.
He painted the Fighting Falcon
with Tamiya and Testors Model
Master colors as an aircraft from
the 8th Fighter Wing at Kunsan
AFB, South Korea.