BUILD AND DETAIL A SPITFIRE » November 2014 www.FineScale.com p. 36 FINISHING SPECIAL OUR EXPERTS HELP YOU • Get started • Use filters, pigments, and washes • Paint with acrylics • Apply modern camouflage • Add realistic weathering PLUS 12 6 —NEW MODELING— PRODUCTS $5.99 WE BUILD AND REVIEW 8 ALL-NEW MODELS 11 0 74470 01260 3 p. 62 p. 59 p. 58 Vol. 32 • Issue 9 WARGAMING AMERICA FSM • 10/01/2014 • 4C • 1 PG WWW.WORLDOFTANKS.COM All images, content, and text © 2014 Wargaming.net LLP. All rights reserved. WORLD OF TANKS , WORLD OF TANKS BLITZ, WORLD OF TANKS XBOX 360 EDITION, WARGAMING.NET and the WORLD OF TANKS, WORLD OF TANKS BLITZ, WORLD OF TANKS XBOX 360 EDITION, WARGAMING.NET logos are registered trademarks of Wargaming.net LLP in the United States. All other marks are trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.*World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition requires Xbox Live Gold membership (sold separately). Additional in-game content available and sold separately. 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And it’s free! reviews, and a database of more than 14,000 products! to FineScale Modeler, 21027 Crossroads Circle, P.O. Box 1612, Waukesha, WI 53187-1612. Canada Post Publication Mail Agreement #40010760. Editor’s Page By Matthew Usher Authentic plastic nostalgia WELCOME TO the November Alternately, you could take a look lot. The Fokker helped kill the FineScale Modeler! I think you’ll at my stock of unbuilt kits. I time while we were stuck in he find a great variety of how-to couldn’t tell you how many I have, cabin. I worked on top of dad’s modeling stories inside, especially but I know I’m not going to run metal tackle box, armed with a our guide to getting started with out anytime soon. When I need a pocket knife. The model did a acrylic paint (pg. 24). Acrylics break between projects (or when great job keeping me entertained have come a long way in the my son wants to build a model) and helping to kill time until the decades since FSM started pub- IT’S A FUN, EASY-TO-BUILD clouds parted and we could hit the lishing, and with great color selec- KIT THAT WAS PRODUCED IN lake. Model building was the per- tion and ease of use, now may be MASSIVE NUMBERS fect distraction, just like it is now. the best time to give them a try. (Dad also used the rainy days to teach me to play gin rummy, but While there’s nothing I love more I’ll break one out and build one in that’s probably a story for another than a brand-new, state-of-the-art an afternoon with a little tube magazine.) kit, I have to admit to having a big glue and some brush-painting. Enjoy the issue! soft spot for Aurora’s 1/48 scale I know my fondness for the kit Fokker D7. It’s a fun, easy-to- comes from memories of building build World War I kit that was my first one. 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