FineScale Modeler Volume 21 Issue 3

Issue

Magazine:

FineScale Modeler

Number:

Volume 21 Issue 3 | March 2003

Language:

English

ISSN:

07482008285003

Table of contents

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 20

Gret gloss paint jobs

by Pat Hawkey
This step-by-step demonstration on an F-102A interceptor shows you how to give your model a finish you'll take a shine to.

Convair F-102A Delta Dagger Case XX wing

Monogram 1:48

5827 1991 New parts

 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 26

USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor

by Mike Ashey
Ship modeling guru Mike Ashey shows how he superdetailed Trumpeter's spectacular 1/350 scale kit.

United States Battleship

USS Arizona (December 7, 1941)

Banner Models 1:350

8801 2001 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:35  | Page 34

Recipe for a Bison assault gun

by Joe P. Morgan
Take two out-of-the-box kits, lightly kitbash, and add some easy scratchbuilding to make this rare German self-propelled gun.

German Tank

PzKpfw 38(t)

Italeri 1:35

212 1980 New box

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 40

Easy Allied identification stripes

by John Adelmann
Avoid the hassle of decals with this neat painting technique.

Hawker Typhoon Mk.Ib

Hasegawa 1:48

09059 (JT59) 1999 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:72  | Page 52

Modeling an SV-22 Osprey

by Charles Landrum
Is it a plane? Is it a helicopter? You decide, but here's our primer on building Esci's 1/72 scale kit of the tilt-rotor bird.

Osprey PV-22A

ESCI/ERTL 1:72

9084 1989 New parts

 

Review, 1:16  | Page 61

Revell's 1913 Maxwell car model

by Tom Graham
First sold as a toy, it made history as the company's first plastic model kit.

Quick Construction Kit

1913 Maxwell Revell Toys, Los Angeles, USA

Revell 1:16

1951 New parts

 

Review, 1:24  | Page 72

Workbench Reviews

by Allan F. Jones
Trumpeter 02401, North American P-51D Mustang (IV)

North American P-51D Mustang IV

Trumpeter 1:24

02401 2002 New tool

 

Review, 1:72  | Page 74

Workbench Reviews

by Walt Fink
Academy 1641, Ju 87G-1 Stuka "Tank Buster"

Ju 87G-1 Stuka "Tank Buster"

Academy 1:72

1641 2002 New tool

 

Review, 1:350  | Page 78

Workbench Reviews

by John Plzak
Zvezda 9007, Russian nuclear submarine K-141 Kursk

Russian Nuclear Submarine

K-141 Kursk NATO Oscar II Class

Zvezda 1:350

9007 2003 New tool

 

Review, 1:48  | Page 80

Workbench Reviews

by Jon Hergenrother
Trumpeter 2803, MiG-195 Farmer C

Mikoyan-Gurevich

MiG-19S Farmer C

Trumpeter 1:48

02803 2011 New tool

 

Review, 1:72  | Page 82

Workbench Reviews

by Matthew Usher
Fine Molds SW-3, Star Wars Jedi Starfighter

Jedi Starfighter with hyperdrive ring Kuat Systems Engineering Light Interceptor

Fine Molds 1:72

SW-3 2002 New tool

 

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