Model making is a great hobby, but knowing how and where to start is another story. It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, ...

Ah, the humble art of model-making: flexing your patience, creativity, and precision motor skills to render your favorite vintage cars, trains, planes, and giant anime robots at 1/1000 scale. Model ...

When I was a kid, there was nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon with a model kit. Snipping the parts off the board, patiently gluing everything together, painting each careful ...

James Drake of McMurray holds his latest project, a model of the sailing ship Berlin. A tool and die maker by trade, he applies the precision he used in his work to the models he builds in his ...

WINSTED — I recently read a story of a hobby shop in Winsted that was closing its doors. Sadly, this is not an uncommon event in the hobby shop business these days. Although that particular closing ...

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In an era where digital interactions often overshadow tactile experiences, the popular resurgence of model kit building ...

Jayne Smith's grandson, Preston, is 5 years old and seeing the Great Lakes and lake freighters for the first time. He's from Mesa, Arizona, and there's not much water there. "With the big ships, his ...

Don Srull has built hundreds of airplane models, including the PWS-10, a 1930s-era fighter flown by the Polish air force. Donald W. Srull, a longtime designer of model-airplane plans published in ...

SAN JOSE — A beloved South Bay hobby store shuttered this winter has been revived to continue a family legacy and the tradition of building model airplanes and trains in an age where many kids would ...