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Current Issue

April 2016


Features

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Airbrushing & Finishing: Pigment washes for weathering

Layered paint camouflages a captured 2S1 Pg. 20

By Aaron Skinner

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Build a beautiful biplane

Wignut Wings' German Rumpler is an easy-assembling eye-catcher Pg. 44

By Phillip Gore

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Final Details: How was this a good idea?

Recalling Convair's XFY-1 Pogo Pg. 66

By Mark Hembree

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Form & Figure: Weather old leather

A cowboy's chaps bear the brunt of this technique Pg. 18

By Joe Hudson

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How to fashion a fascine

Putting AFV Club's Churchhill AVRE to work Pg. 38

By Andrew Cooper

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MMSI Chicago Show 2015

The best figures from the annual Military Miniature Society of Illinois show held in October 2015

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Painting perfect leading edges

Masking tactical markings on a Japanese Ki-45 Pg. 42

By Pablo Miguel Bauleo

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Re-creating an ace's A-4H

Turning a A-4E/F Skyhawk into a MiG-killing Israeli Pg. 30

By Yoav Efrati

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Sculpting rough seas

Shape waves, wake, and spray to put ships in stormy weather Pg. 22

By Chris Flodberg

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Tips for Tracks

Adding individual-link tread is easier than you might think Pg. 27

By Terry Huber

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Bronco Horsa glider

By Chuck Davis

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Meng T-10M

By Jim Zeske

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Merit International USS John F. Kennedy

By Mark Karolus

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Takom Chieftain Mk.5/5P

By John Plzak

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Trumpeter Su-24 "Fencer"

By Walt Fink


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