Hollywood artist's figures
John Rosengrant combines fantasy and reality in remarkably lifelike scratchbuilt figures.
By Scott J Schlichting
Current Issue
March 2003
Features
Great gloss paint jobs
This step-by-step demonstration on an F-102A interceptor shows you how to give your model a finish you'll take a shine to.
By Pat Hawkey
USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor
Ship modeling guru Mike Ashey shows how he superdetailed Trumpeter's spectacular 1/350 scale kit.
By Mike Ashey
Recipe for a Bison assault gun
Take two out-of-the-box kits, lightly kitbash, and add some easy scratchbuilding to make this rare German self-propelled gun.
By Joe Morgan
Easy Allied identification stripes
Avoid the hassle of decals with this neat painting technique.
By John Adelmann
The story behind invasion stripes
What were they for? Where were they used? Which aircraft carried them? We'll answer all your questions!
By Dana Bell
Modeling an SV-22 Osprey
Is it a plane? Is it a helicopter? You decide, but here's our primer on building Esci's 1/72 scale kit of the tilt-rotor bird.
By Charles Landrum
Eastern Front armor diorama
An artist's eye for detail helped Claudio Rigosi bring this German World War II scene to life.
By Lawrence Hansen
Kit Classics No. 54: Revell's 1913 Maxwell car model
First sold as a toy, it made history as the com- pany's first plastic model kit.
By Tom Graham