October 2004 FineScale ~ What do you think?

Thanks. I appreciate that.

Looks like you learned the lessons well.  Nice looking collection of vehicles, subtly weathered.  Good work.

Washing a Tiger - I know this is a really old thread on a really old magazine but I have to give kudos to it anyway. I had just started doing weathering at the end of 2003. I did a Flak 38 and a 38t using a page of weathering tips that came with an old 234/3 armored car kit from the 80's. I did those without using washes but rather by doing the base coat in varying colors and then dry brushing over them until the overall color was somewhat uniform. At that point things were getting very confusing with what to paint when, what to assemble when. Geez. I took a break from building but I still planned on getting back to it after I had it all sorted out. One day I saw this magazine when I stopped in the hobby shop and the cover article grabbed my attention. This was my first real introduction to techniques other than dry brushing and all the materials that were available to do weathering. Looking at my small group of weathered vehicles I see I didn't completely stop building in the seven years that followed but I spent a lot of time rolling the information over and over as my practice at weathering slowly came to a halt. After a few unproductive years I felt I was ready to tackle this again. As a matter of fact I hunted down another copy of this last year for a refresher as I was getting back into modeling and luckily enough I remembered both the cover, the approximate date and the article.

So kudos to the guy who made sense out of washes. Maybe later this year I can chase down a copy of the issue with the second half on dry brushing. Thanks to Matthew Usher and FSM for taking the headache out of weathering and making modelling fun again.

QUOTE: Originally posted by ToMeleck@sbcglobal.net The more ads, the more informed we are about what's out there. Some of the ads are so well done, that they compete with the articles. My vote is for more ads.

QUOTE: Originally posted by Duke Maddog I loved the peek into the Forums. As fightinjoe said, it felt good seeing familiar names, as well as seeing some posts I may have missed from people whose posts I love to read. I'd like to see that expanded a little.

QUOTE: I also enjoyed the expanded reviews as well. Even though I like looking at some of the new things coming out that are in larger scales and glance through those reviews, I mostly read only the reviews of kits in the scale that I keep to. With more reviews, there is a greater chance of seeing a review on a kit in 'my' scale that I might want to go get. Thanks FSM for listening to us.