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HOW TO
BATTLE-DAMAGE A BEETLE
p. 40
October 2020
BETTER
BEARCATS
HAWK
VS.
F8F BUILD-OFF
HOBBYBOSS
p. 18
PRINT
PLANTS
TO SWAMP AN
7 NEW KITS
BUILT AND REVIEWED
Blitz by Takom
Panzer III
p. 61
Tamiya KV-1
p. 58
X-WING
p. 46
PLASTER
BUILDINGS
BONUS
ONLINE
CONTENT
CODE
PAGE 3
Vol. 38
•
Issue 8
WORK WITH
p. 52
Meet The
“Zipper”
from
ITALERI
Highly
detailed
cockpit
includes
C-2
ejection
seat.
Precisely defined analog
instrument
panels.
Boarding ladder and air
refueling boom add realism.
Accurately
rendered armament,
wingtip fuel tanks &
landing gear.
Introduced in 1958, the F-104A/C Starfighter was the
first aircraft to simultaneously hold the world’s record
for speed, altitude and time-to-climb. The F-104 was so
quick that euphoric pilots nicknamed it the “Zipper”
.
I
taleri’s 1/32 rendition of the F-104 uses more than 300 parts to
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bring models to life.
create the legendary aircraft.
Some of the kit’s features include:
• Positionable canopy, gun bay doors and avionics bay doors
• Well-crafted M61 gun
• Tail can be shown atop dolly
• Boarding ladder
• Realistic C-2 ejection seat and cockpit
• Decals for six versions
• Wingtip and underwing fuel tanks
• Two AIM-9B Sidewinders, 2 MK117 750lb bombs
• Detailed engine and afterburner nozzles
• Large format instruction booklet with color images.
See the “Zipper” and hundreds of other Italeri models at
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FOUNDED BY ROY C. GELBER
CONTENTS
October 2020 /// Vol 38 /// No 8
ONLINE CONTENT CODE:
FSM2010
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60
FEATURES
14
Paint & Play
“Cutting” edge painting for weapons
RICH ERICKSON
KIT REVIEWS
56
GWH F-14D Tomcat
58
Tamiya KV-1 Model 1941
16
Airbrushing & Finishing
Preparing a Phantom for a mission
AARON SKINNER
20
59
Modelsvit Mirage IIIE
60
Airfix D.H.82a Tiger Moth
18
Age before beauty?
Building Bearcats, then and now
AARON SKINNER
61
Blitz by Takom PzKpfw III
62
IBG PZL P.11c
63
Clear Prop! UH-2A/B Seasprite
20
Improving a vintage Bearcat
Leftovers and scratchbuilding update
50-year-old Hawk kit
JOHN FERDICO
40
28
Painting a drone-control F8F
Built out of the box, HobbyBoss’ kit
gets colorful scheme
DARREN ROBERTS
IN EVERY ISSUE
5
Editor’s Page
7
Scale Talk/Q&A
10
New Products
40
Squashed!
Terrific techniques to model a
battle-damaged VW Beetle
ANDERS ISAKSSON
46
34
Reader Gallery
46
3D print
Star Wars
scenery
Modern technology swamps Bandai’s
1/72 scale X-wing
JONAS DAHLBERG
64
Classified Marketplace
65
Hobby Shop Directory
65
Advertiser Index
52
Make ruins from plaster
Shattered glass and piles of rubble set
this dreary Caen diorama scene
JOHN BACKENSTROSS
52
66
Final Details
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EDITOR’S PAGE
By Aaron Skinner
Old and new: Introducing an
FSM
build-off
N
ow is a good time to be a mod-
plastic, the inevitable question is:
eler. New kits arrive all of the
Now that you have the new kit, what
time, sometimes of subjects one
should you do with the venerable kit
might have never expected to see
in your collection. Is it worth keeping
done — MiniArt is doing a family of or should you unload it at the next
Cierva C.30 autogyros in 1/48 scale.
club swap meet? Is it possible to take
And then there are the brand-new classic plastic and bring it up to
kits of perennial favorites. In many
today’s standards?
cases, these new kits, which
We decided to find out
feature modern tooling, good
with the first
FineScale
... succumb
Modeler
build-off. Darren
fits, and state-of-the-art sur-
face and interior details,
Roberts and John Ferdico
to the
surpass kits that were the
built 1/48 scale F8F
siren call
gold standard for the sub-
Bearcats from kits pro-
of the
ject for many years.
duced more than four
latest
It’s easy to succumb to
decades apart. Obviously,
offering.
the siren call of the latest
this was not an experiment
offering. We all do it,
conducted with strict scien-
even though we probably have the
tific rigor, but you can judge the
subject in our stash. (A couple of
results for yourself. I think both
Tamiya 1/48 scale Brewster Buffalos
Bearcats look great!
in my stash did not stop me picking
Elsewhere in this issue, Anders
up Special Hobby’s F2A.)
Isaksson makes Ryefield’s VW
But beyond the glare of fresh
Beetle a little the worse for wear, and
shrink wrap and the smell of new
Jonas Dahlberg shows how 3D print-
Greg Kolasa poses a question in Scale Talk
about oldest surviving models. Most of my
early builds perished during my several moves,
but here is the oldest survivor, Halcyon’s 1/9
scale
Alien 3
creature that I finished in 1993. It
was hand-painted with artist acrylics and I
used white glue for goo and blood.
ing can be used to populate a
Star
Wars
swamp scene.
Happy modeling!
editor@FineScale.com
Off the sprue: What quotation inspires you?
What words, written or spoken, make you keep going when times are tough? Or maybe it’s a line that warms your heart and brings a tear to your eye.
Editor
Aaron Skinner
askinner@FineScale.com
Editor, Modeling Brand Group
Tim Kidwell
tkidwell@Kalmbach.com
Digital Editor
Elizabeth Nash
enash@FineScale.com
Editorial Associate
Monica Freitag
mfreitag@FineScale.com
Author
Darren Roberts
editor@FineScale.com
“One crowded hour of
glorious life, is worth an
age without a name.”
– Thomas Osbert
Mordaunt,
The Call
(Although, I probably
quote Hudson from
Aliens
much more
frequently: “Game over,
man. Game over.”)
“It matters not how strait
the gate,
How charged with pun-
ishments the scroll,
I am the master of my
fate,
I am the captain of my
soul.”
– William Ernest Henley,
Invictus
“So much of what I see
reminds me of some-
thing I read in a book,
when shouldn’t it be the
other way around?”
– Meg Ryan,
You’ve Got
Mail.
It sticks with me as
a reminder to create a
life driven by curiosity, in
which fun and interest-
ing things happen.
“The moment you’re
ready to quit is usually
the moment right before
the miracle happens.”
– Unknown
“We are fighting for our
right to live, to exist. And
should we win the day,
the 4th of July will no
longer be known as an
American holiday, but as
the day the world declared
in one voice: We will not
go quietly into the night!
We will not vanish without
a fight!” – Bill Pullman,
Independence Day
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