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 ...

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It used to be that if you wanted to make a nice scale model of an airplane, you’d be building the frame out of thin balsa ribs and covering it all up with tissue paper. Which incidentally was more or ...

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, ...

Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Planes, trains, automobiles, mini figurines, spaceships, you can build a model of just about anything, and it's a lot of fun, too. While some ...

Model car kit box art from the '60s is one of the most overlooked styles of American illustration—except by hot rodders. The level of model building has never been higher than it is today. The ...