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FineScale Modeler Build Better Ship Models (Special Issue)

FineScale Modeler

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Magazine:
FineScale Modeler
Number:
Build Better Ship Models (Special Issue) | 2019
Language:
English
ISSN:
07480801260295

Table of contents

Editorial | Page 4
Editor's Page

by Mark Savage
Going overboard with ships!
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 6
Builder Basics: Ship modeling Pt.1

by Aaron Skinner
Creating the hull thing
04548
USS Independence LCS-2
Trumpeter 1:350
04548 2010 New tool
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 10
Builder Basics: Ship modeling Pt.2

by Aaron Skinner
Adding detail and photo-etch
04548
USS Independence LCS-2
Trumpeter 1:350
04548 2010 New tool
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 14
Builder Basics: Ship modeling Pt.3

by Aaron Skinner
Priming, masking, painting
04548
USS Independence LCS-2
Trumpeter 1:350
04548 2010 New tool
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 18
Builder Basics: Ship modeling Pt.4

by Aaron Skinner
Applying decals and fiddly bits
04548
USS Independence LCS-2
Trumpeter 1:350
04548 2010 New tool
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:72  | Page 22
13 tips for building great ships

by Aaron Skinner
Award-winning modeler offers tips
 

Build Report | Page 27
Ship gallery 1


Model ships by Elias Ali and Mike Fleckenstein
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:350  | Page 28
Ship painting tips

by Alfonso Martinez Berlana
A colorful account of World War I Germany's SMS König
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:400  | Page 32
Do-it-yourself waterline hull

by Ted Bunn
Learn how to make your full-hull ship into a waterline model
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 34
How to build a battlewagon

by Bill Plunk
Deepening the art of Texas
05340
USS Texas BB-35
Trumpeter 1:350
05340 2015 New parts
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:350  | Page 42
Sculpting rough seas

by Chris Flodburg
Shape waves, wake, and spray to put ships in stormy weather
 

Build Report | Page 47
Ship gallery 2


Model ships by Sean Fallesen and Jim Stute
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 48
Build Hasegawa's Nagato

by Harvey Low
Scratchbuilt anti-aircraft posts and photo-etched metal bolster the battleship
40024
IJN Battleship
Nagato 1941
Hasegawa 1:350
40024 (Z24) 2007 New parts
 

Build Report | Page 55
Ship gallery 3


Ship models by Samuel X. Parent and Richard Sliwka
 

Build Report, 1:72  | Page 56
Superdetail a schnellboot

by Fred Brinks
This German torpedo boat is fast, but the model took three years to build
05051
Deutsches Schnellboot S-100 Class German Fast Attack Craft
Revell 1:72
05051 2001 New tool
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 58
One tough ship

by Ulf Lundberg
Building, painting, and detailing a resin SMS Seydlitz
3537WL
German Battlecruiser
SMS Seydlitz - 1912 (waterline)
Combrig 1:350
3537WL 2012 New tool
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:200  | Page 64
Koe Simon's top 10 tips

by Joe Simon
Build a Russian missile destroyer
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:700  | Page 68
Drawing weld seams

by Greg Embree
Step-by-step outline of a simple technique to detail small ships
 

Build Report, 1:350  | Page 70
Build and detail a U-boat

by Anders Isaksson
Right tools make the difference
SE73502
German
U-Boat Type VIIB
AFV Club 1:350
SE73502 2009 New tool
 

Build Report, 1:35  | Page 74
A night to remember

by Mike McFadden
Forced perspective in a shadowbox tells Titanic tale
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:56  | Page 77
7 tips for building plastic sailing ships

by Phillip Gore
Improve your next model today
 

Tips & Tricks, 1:96  | Page 79
Modeling sails for plastic ships

by John Hazard
Shiny styrene has no place on the seas
 

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