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Aircraft How-to: How to add big-scale detail

Modeling Navy ace Butch O'Hare's Wildcat

By Phillip Gore

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Aircraft How-to: Tips to tailor a terrific Taifun

Recalling a Bf 108B's famous North African trip

By Aurelio Gimeno Ruiz

ONLINE EXTRA: Photo gallery: Eduard's 1/48 scale Bf 108B Taifun

Bonus! Weathering Handbook

The <i>FSM</i> staff shows you two essential weathering techniques; master modelers share weathering secrets behind their best models

By Mark Hembree|Aaron Skinner

ONLINE EXTRA: Photo gallery: Butch O'Hare's Wildcat

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Armor How-to: Try out a high-tech kit

Hundreds of pieces, but the basics are the same

By Mark Hembree

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Photography: Get focused!

See how software can clarify your model photos

By Chuck Stewart

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Finishing: Hairspray weathering

Fashioning fatigued paint to style a junked car

By Karl Logan

ONLINE EXTRA: Build Revell's 1/25 scale 1956 Chevy Nomad

ONLINE EXTRA: Photo gallery: Karl Logan's Revell 1956 Chevy Nomad

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Vignettes: Scale storytelling

Narrative modeling through effective composition

By Glenn Bartolotti

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Ship How-to: Building the USS England

This could be your first destroyer!

By Paul Champigny

Eduard 1/48 scale Fokker Dr.1 "Der Rote Flieger"

Pacific Coast 1/32 scale Mk.IXc Spitfire

Platz 1/144 scale P-47D "Bubbletop"

Revell Germany 1/32 scale Piper PA-18 Super Cub

Revell Germany 1/72 scale Lockheed F-22A Raptor

Trumpeter 1/35 scale SdKfz 7 8-ton halftrack

Xtrakit 1/72 scale de Havilland Sea Vixen FAW.2/D.3

Zvezda 1/72 scale Petlyakov Pe-8