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Editor’s page
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Last of the U-boats
Welcome to our special issue,
Build Better Models
Matthew Usher
This WWII German Type
XXIII display makes a great
weekend project
Matthew Usher
Arming Revell’s F-15E
Strike Eagle
Giving a Mudhen an after-
market makeover
Mark wilson
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Secrets of
resin casting
Make one part – or a whole pile
– with this easy-to-learn
technique
Matthew Usher
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Even a Hellcat can
use a little help
Detailing and finishing
Eduard’s F6F-3
Marty sanford
58
Model a Canadian
Forces LAV III
A straightforward conversion
builds this modern Light
Armored Vehicle
JaMes wechsler
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Detailing a destroyer
Improving a ship with
photoetched metal, resin,
and scratchbuilding
frank cUden
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Finish a Canadian
Forces LAV III
Painting, weathering, and final
details
JaMes wechsler
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Improve clear parts
with Future
Better canopies? They’re
soaking in it!
Matthew Usher
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Stretching sprue
22
Get started
airbrushing
The secrets of choosing and
using your first airbrush
Matthew Usher
This basic technique has multi-
ple applications for builders
aaron skinner
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Updating Italeri’s
1/72 scale T-45 Goshawk
A little sheet styrene here,
a little super glue there...
PaUl Boyer
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Easy armor detailing
Aftermarket parts make a great
Panzer III kit even better
Matthew Usher
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Cutting tool roundup
32
Easy aircraft figures
Outfit your workbench
with the tools you need
Matthew Usher
36
Nine basic steps for painting
figures for aircraft dioramas
rafe Morrissey
76
Plan of attack
36
Hairspray
weathering
How worn and rusty paints
behave
karl logan
Planning makes modeling
armor faster and easier
Matthew Usher
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Working with
photoetched metal
Hints to help you get started
and keep going
Matthew Usher
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Rescuing a
Ta 152H-1
Salvaging a partially built kit
kaMil feliks sztarBala
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Let’s build something!
Welcome to
Build Better Models
by mattheW usher
Editor
matthew W. usher
Models
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mark hembree
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Associate Editor
aaron skinner
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ContACt uS
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by its title, but in this case
I think it’s pretty safe to say that
Build Better Models
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deliver what it promises right
up front. For the better part of a
year, we’ve worked at assembling
this volume that combines some
of the most-popular and most-
requested features from
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Modeler’s
past editions. Tat’s not
all, though. In addition to the
selections from our archive, we’ve
also included a variety of fantas-
tic, all-new articles. Every feature
we’ve included here was carefully
selected to help you, well, build
better models. With our usual
clear, step-by-step style, we cover
subjects like airbrushing, weath-
ering, resin casting, and working
with photoetched parts – tools
and techniques you may have
been hesitant to tackle for the
frst time. Hopefully these articles
will help you expand your model-
ing skills and try something new.
Te modeling subjects we
cover inside were carefully se-
lected, too. Tere’s a great variety,
including everything from air-
craft to armor to ships. I’m sure
you’ll fnd plenty of great how-to
information and modeling inspi-
ration in these pages, no matter
what you like to build.
As always, I’d love to hear your
thoughts on this edition, as well
as any thoughts or suggestions
you might have for future special
editions.
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arming revell’s
F-15E
StrikE EaglE
Giving a Mudhen an aftermarket makeover
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By Mark Wilson
As a modeler, U.S. Air Force
Lt. Col. Mark Wilson was acutely
aware of a glaring deficiency in
Revell’s 1/48 scale kit of the
F-15E Strike Eagle — ground-
attack weaponry. So, he
gathered a couple of Academy
kits and shopped the aftermarket
for what he needed.
E
arly on, designers of the F-15 vowed
“Not a pound for air-to-ground.”
But times change. A new suite of
air-to-ground avionics gave this air-superi-
ority thoroughbred impressive ground-
attack capability. Replacing the aging F-4
Phantom and F-111 Aardvark, the F-15E
Strike Eagle became a workhorse in close
air support.
Many consider Revell’s 1/48 scale
F-15E kit the most accurately shaped of
the various models. But this Strike Eagle
lacks talons — no air-to-surface weapons.
Fortunately, there are aftermarket products
to model a modern Strike Eagle. Also,
Academy’s F-15K SLAM Eagle and
updated F-15E Strike Eagle contain
upgrade options.
Updating Revell
To model a “Mudhen,” there are several
identifiers to consider. The kit supplies
older-style AIM-9 Sidewinder launch rails,
1;
but post-Desert Storm F-15Es have
AIM-9/AIM-120 AMRAAM LAU-128
launcher rails and ADU-552 adapters. Also,
the kit has the LANTIRN AN/AAQ-13
navigation pod and AN/AAQ-14 targeting
pods seen on home-based or pre-2005
deployed aircraft. Recently deployed
Mudhens replace the AN/AAQ-14 with
the angular AN/AAQ-33 Sniper XR
Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP). Stock
weapons include only four AIM-9Ms; a
ProModeler boxing has an additional set of
GBUs not commonly seen these days.
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