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Editor · Build & Technique Editor

Devin Ross

Beat

Kits, cutting tools, seams and nubs, decals, weathering, and brush painting

Devin covers everything that happens between opening the box and the final coat. He has catalogued more than 200 kits and tools across grade tiers using the Sprue Cut methodology, tracking where each one actually earns its price and where a cheaper tool does the same job.

His beat is technique made repeatable. The two-snip cut, the sanding ladder that erases a nub, the decal that settles into a panel line without silvering — each gets broken into steps with the failure points marked, because knowing where a technique goes wrong is most of knowing how to do it.

He writes the kit, nipper, sanding, decal, weathering, and brush-painting coverage, and keeps the beginner path — first kit to first finished build — current.

Devin’s field guides

The first field guides are on the bench.

Devin’s launch guides are being written now — check back shortly.