Boeing KC-135A Stratotanker

AMT/Ertl's long-awaited 1/72 scale KC-135A gets top billing in this month's Workbench Reviews. On the cover, a Diane Pinkalla photo provides the dramatic backdrop for FSM photographer Chris Becker's shot of the Stratotanker.

Lewis Pruneau's 1/24 scale drag-strip diorama

"Top Eliminator" – Top-notch modeling

Dressing up Tamiya's big Enterprise

Adding photoetched parts and other details improves the 1/350 scale super carrier

By Gary Frisch

Hand painting a cat-mouth Hellcat

The distinctive World War II squadron markings of VF-27

By Bob Steinbrunn

Airbrushing armored fighting vehicles

Easy techniques for realistic one-color finishes

By Cookie Sewell

Scratchbuilding Boeing's 314 flying boat in 1/72 scale

Fiberglass and acrylic merge in Pan Am's majestic Yankee Clipper

By Paul Budzik

Modeling the F-86D Sabre Dog in 1/32 scale

This vacuum-formed kit converts the classic Hasegawa F-86F into a radar-equipped interceptor

By Gil Hodges

International Color and Camouflage

T-38B LIFT Talon

By Paul Boyer

1993 New Kit Releases

An FSM staff special report