Scale Model Detailing: Projects You Can Do... [Paperback]

Terry Spohn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1995

Shows how to work with paints and finishes, adapt scale figures, add weathering, and use detailing techniques to add realistic details to cars, tanks, aircraft, ships, and diorama scale models. From FineScale Modeler Magazine.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Spohn has drawn 20 projects from the pages of FineScale Modeler magazine and, utilizing these projects, guides hobbyists through the techniques for detailing model figures, ships, armored vehicles, planes, dioramas, and more. Drawings and excellent, well-sequenced photos, some in full color, clearly visualize procedures for applying color washes, making parts from scrap materials, and airbrushing, as well as for achieving such effects as weathering and battle damage. Most projects are accompanied by sources for special materials and a selection of references that contain pictures or actual photos of the project's subject. Modelers with a few kits to their credit and ready to hone their skills will find this a great, nicely comprehensive resource, chockablock with information that's not always easy to obtain. Stephanie Zvirin

Review

Whether it's the Saturn rocket or the X-wing and TIE fighters of Star Wars fame, Famous Spaceships Of Fact And Fantasy will help take modeling where it has never gone before! From classics like Eagle, the lunar landing module, to fearsome starships of the future, the chapters in Famous Spaceships Of Fact And Fantasy take us through many projects and eons of real and imagined technological advances, step by step. There are also special skills chapters to teach the aspiring modeler things like reinforcing vacuum-formed models, building lighting into models, realistic modeling with household junk, and scratch-building. Famous Spaceships Of Fact And Fantasy is a terrific way to explore and enjoy the fun of an exceptionally popular pastimes. Kalmbach Publishing Company is a premier publisher of books for modelers. Other outstanding titles in their series include: FineScale Modeler Magazine's Scale Modeling Tips And Techniques (127-9 $6. 95); Sheperd Paine's Building And Painting Scale Figures (069-8 $17. 95); Sheperd Paine's Modeling Tanks And Military Vehicles (045-0 $12. 95); Mike Ashey's Detailing Scale Model Aircraft (05-4 $14. 95); Mike Ashley's Building & Detailing Scale Model Ships (240-2 $17. 95); Terry Spohn's Armor Conversion And Detailing Projects (268-2 $15. 95); and FineScale Modeler's Scale Modeling Detailing - Projects You Can Do (209-7 $14. 95). -- Midwest Book Review

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company (August 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0890242097
• ISBN-13: 978-0890242094
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,212,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 20 projects from FSM pages, March 26, 2000

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Avi Chami - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scale Model Detailing: Projects You Can Do... (Paperback)

This appears to be a selection of articles that originally appeared on Fine Scale Modeler magazine. Being a group of articles that have no connection between them, it's difficult to assign them a global rating.

There are projects for ship, cars, AFV, planes and diorama modelers.

On the positive side, the book has very good photos, a broad selection of themes, and good tips for painting, weathering, modeling battle damage, etc. On the negative side, many of the articles show their age, we are talking about kits from the 80's. Also, I expected to see at least some projects with a true "step to step" description, but there weren't any.

All in all, a good book for beginners, giving a first approach in almost all the fields of scale modeling.