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FINISHING: Use pastels for desert camo
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July 2016
REJIGGER A JUG!
Create a search-and-rescue
P-47 Thunderbolt
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TEST
WINNERS
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2
STAR
WAR
CON
S
HOW TO
Make a knocked-out StuH 42
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Model a sexy Cobra copter
p.44
Create a pint-sized
PLUS
Builder Basics:
Deuce-and-a-half truck
p.40
Helpful glue facts
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SPECIAL: EXPANDED REVIEW SECTION
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Rye Field
Model Tiger I
Meng Convair
F-106A Delta Dart
Tamiya
SU-76M
BONUS
ONLINE
CONTENT
CODE
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Vol. 34
•
Issue 6
CONTENTS
July /// Vol. 34 /// No. 6
ONLINE CONTENT CODE:
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SPECIAL
EXPANDE
D
REVIEW
SECTION
FEATURES
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Form & Figure
Painting pale skin
JOE HUDSON
KIT REVIEWS
52
Rye Field Models Tiger I
54
Tamiya SU-76M
54
Eduard Fw 190A-8
54
Revell Germany BAe Hawk T1
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Airbrushing & Finishing
Pastels inish desert camoulage
FAUSTO MUTO
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Italeri Statue of Liberty
56
Tamiya IJN
Kagero
57
Horizon Models Mercury-Atlas
58
Meng F-106A Delta Dart
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Thunderbolt to the rescue
Modeling a 1/72 scale P-47D
for SAR duty
FRANK CUDEN
26
End of the line for a StuH 42
Dragon’s 1/35 scale SP gun gets PE,
paint, and Zimmerit
KENNETH CHILDRES
59
Italeri Mirage IIIC
32
32
FSM
contest gallery
Star Wars
online winners
60
Trumpeter HEMTT M983
tractor
60
Trumpeter MIM-104 Patriot
launcher and radar trailers
40
Producing a pint-size
Deuce-and-a-half
Upgrading, detailing a 1/72 scale
Academy 2�½-ton Army truck
BART CUSUMANO
IN EVERY ISSUE
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Editor’s Page
7
Scale Talk
10
Spotlight
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Creating a sexy Cobra
Working over an old kit to relect a
Vietnam-era Bell AH-1 attack copter
FLOYD S. WERNER JR.
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New Products
38
Reader Gallery
51
Reader Tips
62
Questions & Answers
64
Hobby Shop Directory
64
Classified Marketplace
48
Model glue FAQ
How it works, how to work with it
AARON SKINNER
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Final Details
A dogged resistance
MARK HEMBREE
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FineScale Modeler
July 2016
EDITOR’S PAGE
By Mark Savage
Older and wiser: How do we cope?
I
have some news for you: None of teens hovering over the family card
us are getting any younger.
table with our model spread out on a
Much as I already had sus-
newspaper to sop up errant glue and
pected this was the case, my astute
paint.
observation was conirmed during a
But as dedicated modelers, we’re
weekend at the AMPS International not about to give up the hobby. Nor
Convention. hat’s the Armor
do we want to start building crummy
Modeling and Preservation
looking models. So how
Society’s annual do, this time
do we cope?
I’ve tried
in balmy Sumter, S.C.
I’ve tried squinting a
squinting
Aaron Skinner and I had
lot, holding parts at vari-
a lot,
a great time at the show,
ous distances from my
holding
saw a lot of fantastic tanks,
nose. Sometimes I wish
parts at
guns, halftracks, and
my arms were longer. I
various
trucks. We’ll run a gallery
guess an OptiVisor is a bet-
distances
in a future issue.
ter answer to dimming eye-
from my
But as a 60-something
sight.
nose.
guy, I felt like I was
Some of us use stools or
attending a meeting of
padded chairs at the work-
my peers. Many of us
bench. Some of us have
walk with a slight limp, have eyes
installed better lighting in our work-
that demand bifocal or trifocal lenses, shops.
and a bunch of us bring along a long-
We all have our various coping
time but cranky friend, Arthur Ritus! mechanisms.
Not all the joints and ingers are as
What have you done to continue
cooperative as when we were pre-
modeling despite your bum back,
Hey, I
do
have a sprue in my hand!
fumbling ingers, and fuzzy eyesight?
We’d like to know.
Please take a few minutes out of
your busy summer to drop me an
e-mail or letter telling me what con-
traptions you’ve built, or tricks you’ve
mastered, to keep your modeling
A-game alive.
Inquiring minds want to know!
editor@finescale.com
Off the sprue: What historical
gure would you most like to meet?
Editor
Mark Savage
msavage@Kalmbach.com
Senior Editor
Aaron Skinner
askinner@FineScale.com
Associate Editor
Mark Hembree
mhembree@FineScale.com
Assistant Editor
Elizabeth Nash
enash@FineScale.com
Editorial Associate
Monica Freitag
mfreitag@FineScale.com
Teddy Roosevelt is a
hero of mine. Love
his get-the-job-done
attitude, his hands-on
approach, and his moxie.
Anyone who could get
any Congress to estab-
lish our great National
Park System is just “bully”
with me!
My grandfather, Lee
Skinner. He was a Seabee
in the Pacific during
World War II and worked
in the aviation industry
after, two things I’d loved
to have talked to him
about. But he died years
before I was born.
It would be a hoot to
meet H.L. Mencken, a
grand curmudgeon who
defined Puritanism as
“the haunting fear that
someone, somewhere,
may be happy.” However,
if I could meet Will
Rogers there is a better
chance he’d like me.
I would like to meet
Cleopatra to talk about
ancient Egyptian politics
and gold accessories.
John F. Kennedy. He
had a Camelot lifestyle
and was good-looking
(appealing to a 6-year-
old girl). At my Catholic
school he was a big deal.
We even studied his
Profiles in Courage
with
Sister Deotilla (laugh, but
that was her name).
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