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May 2016
BUILDS
CONVERTING A
POLAR LIGHTS KIT
PLUS
STEVE NEILL’S
5�½-FOOT REPLICA
HOW TO
Pre-shade a
SdKfz 232
p.22
Paint a pilot in
30 minutes
p.19
Make a
Korean War Pershing
p.29
STAR
TREK
TURNS
50
80+ NEW PRODUCTS & 7 EXPERT REVIEWS
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FORM & FIGURE
Dressing a pilot in 30 minutes
Small scale does not imply less detail
JOE HUDSON
WORKBENCH REVIEWS
Your most wanted kits
Go ahead, have your say!
MARK HEMBREE
7 NEW
KITS
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Zvezda Petlyakov Pe-2
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Tamiya M4A3E8
“Easy Eight” Sherman
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AIRBRUSHING & FINISHING
When gray is black and white
Stark pre-shading for monochromes
JOHN BONNANI
Build and paint Airfix’s P-51D
Get a good-looking
Glamorous Glen III
MASSIMO SANTAROSSA
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Airfix Heinkel He 111P-2
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Trumpeter USS
Tennessee
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Takom Mk.A Whippet
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Valom F-101C Voodoo
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Italeri ATR 42-500
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Model a Korean War Pershing
Make a Marine of Tamiya’s M26
MIKE REAVES
Piloting TV’s starship
Enterprise
How to boldly, but easily, convert Polar
Lights’ kit to the ship’s initial version
PHILLIP GORE
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66"
Enterprise!
This TOS NCC-1701 is no small matter
MARK HEMBREE
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Reader Tips
Questions & Answers
Advertiser Index
Hobby Shop Directory
Classified Marketplace
Re-creating a rust bucket
Modeling a real, rotting Chevy pickup
KARL LOGAN
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Turboprops for a DC-3
Convert Minicraft’s airliner to a BT-67
CARL KNABLE
FINAL DETAILS
Remodeling your space
MARK HEMBREE
On the Cover
Longtime
FineScale Modeler
contributor Phillip Gore helps us
celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original “Star Trek” television
series with a typically flawless rendition of the original ship.
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EDITOR’S PAGE
By Mark Savage
What the heck ... !
HOLY COW!
Is that a sci-fi
Polar Lights kit, but also cinema
model on
FSM’s
cover?
pro and modeler Steve Neill’s
You bet! And yes, it’s been a
giant-sized
Enterprise,
with how-
while.
to tips if you’re going “full monty”
Last time sci-fi made the cover
on a Starfleet ship.
was 1999 when everyone had their
Now don’t you aircraft and
shorts in a bunch over the pending
TV’S “STAR TREK”
Y2K crisis. Luckily we all sur-
IS 50. CAN WE
vived, and now here we are with
the starship
Enterprise
boldly tak-
REALLY BE THAT OLD?
ing us into the summer.
This is Phillip Gore’s version of armor guys think we’ve forgotten
the
Enterprise
as it appeared in the about you. We’ve got you covered
pilot of TV’s “Star Trek” 50 years with a stellar P-51, none other
ago. Can we be that old?
than Chuck Yeager’s
Glamorous
Seems like “Star Trek: The
Glen III,
an expanded Airbrushing
Next Generation” was just on the
& Finishing column on pre-shad-
tube, my two kids huddled in
ing a German SdKfz 232, and
front of it. Uh, my baby is 32!
enough weathering to turn a
In any case, we felt the 50th
pickup truck into a rust bucket.
anniversary of the best-known and
most popular sci-fi TV series was
“Most Wanted” is back!
reason enough to show you not
This issue we also revive our pop-
only Phillip’s retooling of the
ular “Most Wanted” feature, a
survey of what kits you want to see
the model makers produce.
So please take a few minutes to
go to our website and fill out a
“Most Wanted” survey form to let
us, and the manufacturers, know
what’s on your kit A-list. We’ll
share the vote outcome in a fall
issue.
For now, we hope you enjoy our
foray into the popular sci-fi world
(watch for an online Steve Neill fea-
ture)
and remember to beam up,
er, buy, a copy at the newsstands
for one of your Trekkie friends.
editor@finescale.com
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Your Editorial Staff
Off the Sprue!
Favorite family vacation?
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Pictured Rocks National
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Aaron:
Yeppoon, Australia. Weather was
lousy, so I built the USS
John F. Kennedy.
Mark H.:
My wife found round-trip tickets
to Paris for $288, so we took both kids to
France for a week.
Elizabeth:
The idyllic village of Wengen,
Switzerland, City in the Clouds.
Mark S.:
Whale watch off N.H. coast
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