Now available for order, the May Issue contains the annual 'Figures in Focus Special Issue' that features dedicated figures builds figure news and previews. As usual its pages are packed with articles such as full model builds, reference articles, news, and reviews, among others.

Volume 47 Issue 554 – May 2017

Figures in Focus

• Inside Story. SMMI’s Mark Dollery talks to Lee Witt of ‘Fields of Glory Models’
• Mobile Firepower - the Somme 1916 - The Machine Gun Corps. Xavier Aillaud builds a 1:35 diorama with Tommy’s War figures and Clyno Vickers Motorcycle and Sidecar Combination
• Trench Warfare – Verdun 1916. Vietnamese Modeller Phuong Ke scratchbuilds a World War One Diorama
• Los Diablos Colorados. Colonel Charles Louis Desire Dupin - Kevin Peart builds a colourful warrior from the Mexican Empire using the 1:9 Ellies Miniatures kit
• In The Frame. Ian Barraclough builds an imaginative diorama featuring Major Ivan Hirst REME, and a story of the VW Factory in Germany
• Smoke Break. Gerry Doyle details the MiliMen German Winter Figure

Patton on the RISE
Danumurthi Mahendra builds the 1:35 Academy M60A1 with ERA and M9 Dozer Blade, in the US Army CARC scheme

Track Links – Big Gun
Keisuke Tanaka adds his distinctive style to the 1:35 Tamiya M109 SPG

Modellers Masterclass -- Kapitán Otakar Jaroš!
Marian Bunc details the 1:35 Tamiya as a Czechoslovakian Tank Brigade SU-85

Valkyria Chronicles -- Edelweiss
Something a little different as Clayton Ockerby builds the 1:35 Zoukei-Mura Gallia Experimental Tank!

War Zone – Centurion Tank
In the first of a two-part feature, Richard Kent lifts the hatch on another iconic British Tank!

Vive la France!
Vitor Costa shows you ‘how-to’ paint and weather the Meng Model French FT-17 tank using AK nteractive products

White Lightning!
Jaffe Lam adds a cold weather finish to a 1:35 Russian BT-7

Schwimmingly – Well
Michael Tafil dips his toe into the 1:35 Tamiya kit

Modelling with MIG – King Tiger in Winter
Robin Gilby uses Ammo of MIG products to paint and weather the 1:35 Revell Sd.Kfz.182 Ausf B

Regular Features
Military News, Figure News, Figures in Focus, Previews, Warship News