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Showcase: Modeling a Cold War icon

A master goes deep on this <i>Typhoon</i>-class sub

By Kelly Shaw

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Cover story: Make your models indestructible

Innovative techniques for sturdier models

By John Ferdico

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Kitbash a Sherman Firefly

Plastic, resin, photoetched metal, and three kits!

By Colin Shea

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Improve a multimedia Super Corsair

Aftermarket details soup up Special Hobby's kit

By Frank Cuden

ONLINE EXTRA: More Super Corsair

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Skill builder: Post-shading

This painting technique can make drab exciting!

By Aaron Skinner

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Desert weathering for a Bf 109

A unique look for the ubiquitous German fighter

By Francisco Carlos Soldán Alfaro

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Shorten a 737

Saw your way through a simple conversion

By Ben Brown

Accurate Miniatures 1/72 scale Predator UAV

Bronco 1/35 scale Fieseler V-1 flying bomb

Dragon 1/32 scale Messerschmitt Bf 110C

Hasegawa 1/200 scale 737-700 airliner

HobbyBoss 1/48 scale MiG-17F Fresco C

Kits compared: Bronco 1/35 scale Land-Wasser-Schlepper

Kits compared: HobbyBoss 1/35 scale Land-Wasser-Schlepper

Moebius 1/24 scale "Lost in Space" Chariot

Tamiya 1/35 scale Panzerkampfwagen IV Ausf J