FineScale Modeler Magazine

FineScale Modeler launches 2026 with an expanded 2025 IPMS/USA National Convention photo gallery--20 pages of scale modeling glory from the best builders in the U.S. and around the  world. But that's not all for this monster 76-page issue! Master modeler John Maher creates a 1/72 scale late-war Bf 109 that has seen so many repairs it's a "Frankenschmitt." Karel Sutt rolls out a scale cannon in an unusual artillery how-to, and Kent Waterson pulls out all the stops to model 1/48 scale OS2U Kingfishers on the quarterdeck of the USS Massachusetts. Plus sci-fi bases, a Mercury space capsule, kit reviews, and more!