Fun With Scale Modeling

Building scale models can be fun. This new printed book focuses on car kits. See how you can build a model kit, with ideas, pictures, and tips to help you along. Whether you are a beginner or long time modeler, there is something in this book for everyone. The book is in full color and a large format for your enjoyment. Inside are model projects such as: The Tamiya Can-Am McLaren Mk8d, Testors Mercury Comet, a Horizon resin 1980's Batmobile kit, and the AMT Grandpa Munster's Dragula.

The companion to the national public television series based on one of America's favorite hobbies. Projects in this well-illustrated how-to book range from simple to complex. More than 300 detailed step-by-step line drawings help readers accomplish their projects, and an 8-page full-color section showcases some spectacular results.

Ideal for beginning scale modelers, this introductory book answers all the basic modeling questions about tools, kits, glues, decals, paints, and much more. Contains basic but detailed information and high-quality projects. From the pages of FineScale Modeler magazine.

In this issue we've filled it with some great model kits. The AMT Wedge Dragster makes it's mark after decades of never being released. Moebius Models Mercury Comet Cyclone hits the stage with some mild modifications and a street machine attitiude. The Ford Race Team gets ready for the track with a Monogram Ford F350 Duallie, Revell 1966 Ford Mustangs Shelby GT350R, and a Galaxie Unlimited Race Trailer. We check out Revells new pre-colored modern muscle Dodge kit, as well as a Tom Daniel Vandal. To round out the kits included, we have a Fujimi Ford GT40 from LeMans. As always, there's modelling tips, ideas, mods, and ideas for you to try. Scale Model Life bring the modeling to you!

Scale Models in Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications provides a simple and fundamental method of designing scale model experiments. This book is divided into two parts. Part I explores the background of scale modeling and explains the design procedure of scale models and experiments. The relaxation method commonly applied to conflicting requirements in model design is also analyzed. Part II is devoted to case studies selected from modern fields of model application. These studies have been interpreted uniformly. This publication is designed not only as a college textbook for senior and graduate levels but also as a working reference for practicing engineers.

In the 1960s, model kit building was a huge hobby. Kids built plastic kits of planes, tanks, race cars, space ships, creatures from scary movies, you name it. Before baseball card collecting, Pokémon, and video games, model kit building was one of the most popular hobby activities. Car and airplane kits were the most popular, and among the car kits, muscle cars, as we know them today, were one of the most popular categories. Many owners of real muscle cars today were not old enough to buy them when the cars were new, of course. Yet kids of the 1960s and 1970s worshiped these cars to an extent completely foreign to kids today. If you couldn’t afford or were too young to buy a muscle car back then, what could you do? For many, the next best thing was to buy, collect, and build muscle car kits from a variety of kit companies. Hundreds were made. Many of these kits have become collectible today, especially in original, unassembled form. Although people still build kits today, there is a broad market for collectors of nostalgic model kits. People love the kits for the great box art, to rekindle fond memories of building them 40 years ago, or even as a companion to the full-scale cars they own today. Here, world-leading authority Tim Boyd takes you through the entire era of muscle car kits, covering the options, collectability, variety availability, and value of these wonderful kits today. Boyd also takes you through the differences between the original kits, the older reproduction kits, and the new reproduction kits that many people find at swap meets today. If you are looking to build a collection of muscle car kits, interested in getting the kits of your favorite manufacturer or even just of the cars you have owned, this book will be a valuable resource in your model kit search.

This volume thoroughly covers scale modeling and serves as the definitive source of information on scale modeling as a powerful simplifying and clarifying tool used by scientists and engineers across many disciplines. The bookelucidates techniques used when it would be too expensive, or too difficult, to test a system of interest in the field. Topics addressed in the current edition include scale modeling to study weather systems, diffusion of pollution in air or water, chemical process in 3-D turbulent flow, multiphase combustion, flame propagation, biological systems, behavior of materials at nano- and micro-scales, and many more. This is an ideal book for students, both graduate and undergraduate, as well as engineers and scientists interested in the latest developments in scale modeling. This book also: Enables readers to evaluate essential and salient aspects of profoundly complex systems, mechanisms, and phenomena at scale Offers engineers and designers a new point of view, liberating creative and innovative ideas and solutions Serves the widest range of readers across the engineering disciplines and in science and medicine

Gives beginners practical advice on tools, building, painting, detailing, and applying decals to scale model planes, tanks, and ships. Includes shortcuts and innovations that deliver quality and realism to all types of scale models. From FineScale Modeler magazine.