From basic tank building techniques to step-by-step desert weathering tips, this 84-page special edition covers a variety of desert modeling subjects.

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Modeling combat in sand

Desert War Modeling

TANK techniques & tips • Basic armor modeling skills are all you need

Step-by-step desert weathering • Giving Tamiya’s Challenger 2 a beat-up look for Operation Telic

“First in the Blue” • Finish a USAAF P-40 Warhawk in North Africa colors

Modeling a Minicraft B-24D • Hand-painting and heavy weathering deliver a Liberator

Model a rare African StuG • A few changes to Dragon’s 1/35 scale kit make one of four vehicles in Tunisia

Improve Tamiya’s SdKfz 222 • Simple, inexpensive fixes finish a vintage armored-car model for North Africa

Correcting a Carro Armato • Aftermarket parts and ingenuity improve Tamiya’s M13/40 medium tank

Forgotten Casualty • Build an abandoned tank diorama out of pieces from your spares box

Re-creating an ACE´S A-4H • Turning a A-4E/F Skyhawk into a MiG-killing Israeli A-4H

Bring a MIRAGE to LIFE • Turn a 1/48 scale Italeri kit into a French air force knockout!

Give impact to a STRIKE EAGLE • Shades of gray whip Revell’s F-15E into shape

UP-ARMORING Tamiya’s HUMVEE • Scratchbuilding armor and other details for a 2004 Baghdad patroller

Adding color to ISRAELI ARMOR • Layers and layers of paint build up Academy’s 1/35 scale main battle tank

Model a Canadian Forces LAV III • A straightforward conversion builds this modern Light Armored Vehicle

PIGMENT WASHES DIRTY A WAR-WEARY GUN • Layered paint camouflages a captured 2S1

DESERT WAR GALLERY