FineScale Modeler Build Better Model Aircraft (Special Editon)

Issue

Magazine:

FineScale Modeler

Number:

Build Better Model Aircraft (Special Editon) | 2011

Language:

English

ISSN:

72262746779916

Table of contents

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 6

Battle damage for a deluxe diorama

by Phillip Gore
Updating Sheperd Paine's famous Monogram display

B-17G Flying Fortress

Monogram 1:48

5600 1975 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:12  | Page 12

Improve a Mercury capsule

by Phillip Gore
Simple tips for building a better spacecraft

Project: Mercury

Atomic City 1:12

0062001 2004 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 14

Fighter-plane fundamentals

by Frank Cuden
Whip up a one-of-a-kind Wildcat

General Motors FM-2 Wildcat / Martlet VI

Sword 1:48

SW 48005 2010 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:32  | Page 18

Building better biplanes

by Jeff Herne
Besting some of the difficulties of multiwing models

WW I

Albatros D.Va

Wingnut Wings 1:32

32015 2010 New parts

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 24

Improving Tamiya's Lancaster

by Chuck Sawyer
Added detail and beautiful weathering create a stunning tribute

Avro Lancaster B Mk.I/III

Tamiya 1:48

61105 2009 New parts

 

Build Report, 1:72  | Page 32

Kitbash a Sukhoi Su-27P "Flanker"

by Yufei Mao
Tips to paint, weather, and superdetail a small-scale fighter

Flanker B

Sukhoi 27

Airfix 1:72

05025 1990 New tool

Su-27 Flanker New Russian Knights

Hasegawa 1:72

00905 2008 New decals

Su-27 Flanker for Hasegawa kit

Eduard 1:72

72349 2001 New tool

Su-27 Flanker D

Extratech 1:72

EX 72063

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 38

Built from the box

by John Maher
Making the most of what's at hand

Kawanishi

N1K1-Ja Shiden Type 11

Tamiya 1:48

61038 (61038•2200) 1994 New tool

WWII Japanese Pilots (2)

Jaguar 1:48

48003

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 43

Easy aircraft weathering

by Patrick Hawkey
Add flight-time wear and tear to your models without using an airbrush

Thunderbolt Mk.II 'Royal Air Force'

Hasegawa 1:48

09241 (JT141) 1997 New decals

 

Build Report, 1:72  | Page 48

Superdetail Hasegawa's tiny Polikarpov I-16

by Rogerio "Rato" Marczak
Scratchbuilt and photoetched-metal parts improve a World War II fighter

Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 'U.S.S.R.'

Hasegawa 1:72

51328 (AP28) 1995 New parts

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 54

Harrier help

by Matthew Usher
Adding pre-painted cockpit details to Hasegawa's Royal Air Force Harrier GR.7

Harrier GR Mk.7 `Royal Air Force´ [Royal Air Force Attacker]

Hasegawa 1:48

07236 (PT36) 2004 New parts

Harrier GR Mk.7 Hasegawa

Eduard 1:48

FE291 2004 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:72  | Page 58

Masking canopies & camo

by Aaron Skinner
Old and new techniques combine to produce a sharper-looking He 111

Heinkel He111H-6

Hasegawa 1:72

00551 (E21) 2004 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:32  | Page 64

Superdetailing Hasegawa's Dora

by Ricardo Dacoba
Resin parts and an expert paint job finish a 1/32 scale Fw 190D-9

Focke-Wulf Fw190D-9 'Rudel'

Hasegawa 1:32

08143 2003 New decals

 

Review, 1:48  | Page 69

Kit Classics

by Tom Graham
Aurora's Focke Wulf Fw 190

Focke-Wulf Famous Fighters of all nations

Aurora 1:48

30-59 1954 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 70

Backdate a Phantom II

by Patrick Hawkey
How to make Hasegawa's 1/48 scale F-4J an F-4B Navy jet

McDonnell Douglas

F-4J Phantom II Phantom Family

Hasegawa 1:48

07001 (P1) 1982 New tool

 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 76

Builda secret Japanese seaplane

by Alfonso Martinez Berlana
The submarine-based Seiran was serious business

Aichi M6A1 Seiran

Tamiya 1:48

61054 1997 New tool

 

Review, 1:48  | Page 80

Kit Classics

by Matthew Usher
Aurora's Fokker Dr.I triplane

World War I

Fokker DR-1 Triplane Famous Fighters

Aurora 1:48

105-69 1956 New tool

 

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