Assembling a plastic model kit is a rewarding hobby and it makes a welcome change from digital activities. No other pastime allows you to recreate scale models of real-life or imaginary items with ...

As an Autopian reader and former child, you probably at some point assembled at least one or two plastic model-kits with hopes to bring your four-wheeled fantasies into three-dimensional reality ...

The first-ever mass-produced Hyundai car was the 1975 Pony, styled by Giugiaro and featuring Ford and Mitsubishi bits. Here's a plastic model kit of that car.

We used a combination of in-house expertise, research, buying guides from model kit and hobbyist publications, and user reviews to find the best model car kits.

A look back at five memorable scale plastic model-car kits of Chevrolet products, plus a few misses and bloopers released over the years.

What’s a Gunpla? Gunpla are action figure-sized plastic model kits based on the long-running giant robot anime and manga series Gundam.

We used a combination of in-house expertise, research, buying guides from model kit and hobbyist publications, and user reviews to find the best model car kits.

Weathering model kits really helps set them off and makes even the most detailed plastic models look even more realistic. Here's how to weather your own model kits.

This holiday season you can be sure that someone reading this story will either receive or give a scale-model kit as a gift.

Once model kits became Tamiya’s primary business in the 1950s, the next challenge it faced was dealing with the barrage of plastic kits that were flooding the Japanese market from foreign ...

Model citizens: hobbyists explain why putting together plastic kits is hardly kids’ stuff Plastic model makers say they are living through the hobby’s golden age Feb. 27, 2022 4 min read ...

Scale models: These kits replicate vehicles, aircraft, ships and military hardware at a specific scale, such as 1:72 or 1:350, ensuring proportional accuracy.