The builder keeps applying glue gingerly to the various components until construction is complete and a fine motor car, ocean-going vessel or aeroplane is created in miniature. Plastic modelling is a ...

A model of a Lockheed Constellation built from a non-standard scales nearly 60 years old. Back then, most models were designed to fit a very specific box size. [Courtesy: Terry Moore] Scale modeling, ...

Building model kits is a cherished hobby for numerous people, offering a gateway to express their creativity and a feeling of gratification after finishing the task. The traditional link between model ...

If you like crafty projects and tinkering with mechanical parts, building models kits is probably one of your hobbies. It’s satisfying to work with your hands on a model kit, plus you get to learn the ...

Sai is a singer-songwriter from India with a passion for gaming and tech. His music has been featured on Rolling Stone, Rock Street Journal, Indie Music Diaries, and more. The moment has arrived.

As a child growing up near the Bovington Camp military base in Dorset, England, in the 1960s, Sandy McRorie frequented its tank museum. With his keen interest in military vehicles, McRorie remembers ...

Some said it was just a fad, but when the first wave of 1:25-scale plastic model kits appeared around 1960, demand was so huge, the owners of plastic kit makers like AMT, Aurora, IMC, JoHan, Lindberg, ...

As of this year, the total lifetime sales of Gunpla, or Gundam plastic model kits, has reached the monumental figure of 500 million units. To give some context to that figure, if you were to line up ...