1986 New kit releases

FSM Staff Report

Al Kalbfleisch's 1/12 scale samurai general vignette

A challenging project for a beginning figure painter!

Converting Historex soldiers – into just about anything!

Step-by-step techniques for posing and detailing plastic figures

By Ray Anderson

Grumman's forward-swept X-29

Scratchbuilding the radical experimental jet in 1/48 scale

By Jamie Pye|Denis Skora

Detailing Israel's Merkava main battle tank in 1/35 scale

Techniques you can apply to any vehicle, particularly if you lack good reference material

By Terry Sunday

Macro-scale modeling techniques

Scratchbuilding tiny science-fiction models

By Walter Vail Jr

Improving starship models with paint

Implying intricate detail in two dimensions

By Gino Dykstra

Sergeant, 4th Marine Brigade, American Expeditionary Forces, France, 1918

Number 11 in the AMERICAN DRESS AND DETAIL series

By Ron Rudat