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FineScale Modeler Great Scale Modeling 1998

FineScale Modeler

Issue

Magazine:
FineScale Modeler
Number:
Great Scale Modeling 1998 | 1998
Language:
English
ISSN:
07482008285085

Table of contents

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 6
Showcase - A superb Flying Tigers P-40C


Hank Borger's Flying Tigers P-40 Warhawk
6803
Tiger Shark P-40B The Flying Tigers' "China Doll"
Monogram 1:48
6803 1973 New box
 

Build Report | Page 8
Milwaukee's Richard I. Bong chapter

by Matthew Usher
A look at one of IPMS/U.S.A.'s founding chapeters
 

Build Report, 1:32  | Page 14
Greg Bergman's U-505 Submarine


A 9'-long German Type IX-C U-boat
 

Build Report, 1:32  | Page 16
A Better Matchbox Dauntless

by Novus Henry
Converting a large-scale SBD-5 to an SBD-3
PK-503
Dauntless SBD-5
Matchbox 1:32
PK-503 1977 New tool
 

Build Report, 1:144  | Page 20
Complex complex


Edwin Perez's detailed space shuttle launch complex
04911
Launch Tower & Space Shuttle with Booster Rockets Limited Edition
Revell 1:144
04911 (80-4911) 2014 New box
 

Build Report | Page 24
Joe Morgan's unusual German armor conversions


A portfolio of building tips from a master armor modeler
 

Build Report | Page 28
History in scale


Peter Twist's fabulous figures depict lore from two and one-half millennia
 

Build Report | Page 34
Show Gallery


GSM's brings you photos from modeling contests
 

Build Report | Page 42
David Gianakos' Spacecraft


Bound for museums, these models are astronauts' favorites
 

Build Report | Page 46
Sci-fi gallery


Models from "Star Wars", "Star Trek", and beyond
 

Build Report | Page 50
IPMS Nationals


GSM visits the 1997 convention in Columbus, Ohio
 

Build Report, 1:6  | Page 58
David M. Schultz's Tiger I


An all-metal, fully operational - and big - tank
 

Build Report, 1:64  | Page 62
The Bonhomme Richard Project

by Sheperd Paine
A team modeling effort for Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry
 

Build Report | Page 68
Pete Bave's Ultrarealistic Models


Are they real, or are they...? You may have to look twice (or three times)
 

Build Report, 1:72  | Page 76
George Hatzenbuhler's whaling ship "Wanderer"


It took 57 years to complete this 1/72 scale ship
 

Build Report | Page 78
Show Gallery

by Glen Phillips
The 1997 California Show
 

Build Report, 1:72  | Page 84
Dioramas of The Martin Bomber Plant

by Mike Whye
Modelers commemorate a WWII plant's 50th anniversary
 

Build Report | Page 88
Alexander De Leon's large-scale figure models


This veteran modeler builds in larger scales and tries to appeal to figure modelers and airplane or vehicle modelers
 

Build Report, 1:24  | Page 92
Michael Dobrezelecki's Hawker Hurricane Mk. I


An "almost straight from the box" stunner
09502-8
Hurricane Mk1
Airfix 1:24
09502-8 1973 New tool
 

Build Report, 1:48  | Page 94
Gregg Williams' Tamiya Lancaster "Dambuster"


Only the British could love it more
61021
Dambuster Grand Slam Bomber
Lancaster BI Special 22000IB Bomb
Tamiya 1:48
61021 (MA-121) 1975 New parts