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Cover Story: Stalingrad KV-1

A picture from the battlefield inspired this photo-realistic detailing project on Trumpeter's 1/35 scale tank kit.

By Tom Foti

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Aircraft How-to: Build your first airliner

FSM's Associate Editor adds detail and after-market decals to build an eye-catching jet.

By Mark Hembree

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Armor How-to: Destruction construction

Turn a perfectly good armor kit into a blown-apart, burned-out casualty of war.

By Karl Logan

SUBSCRIBER-ONLY EXTRA: Build a ghostly scene for a destroyed tank

SUBSCRIBER-ONLY EXTRA: Photos from a ghostly Panzer IV diorama

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Aircraft How-to: Build a better Betty

Careful painting and detailing gives Tamiya's 1/48 scale Japanese bomber a proper late-war heavily weathered appearance.

By Carmine Mari

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Aircraft How-to: Natural-metal magic

Albert's 1/72 scale B-58 Hustler gets an ultra- realistic second skin of real metal.

By Albert Tureczek

Academy Messerschmitt 1/72 scale Me 262A-1a

Bronco 1/35 scale Humber Scout Car Mk. I

Eduard Messerschmitt 1/48 scale Bf 110E

Kinetic 1/32 scale F-86F-30 Sabre

Special Hobby 1/32 scale P-39D Airacobra

Tamiya 1/35 scale Jagdpanzer 38(t) Hetzer

Trumpeter 1/350 scale USS Massachusetts

Trumpeter 1/72 scale F-105D Thunderchief

Zvezda 1/48 scale Lavochkin La-5FN