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If you’re a car fanatic and you enjoy building things, chances are you’re also an avid model car kit hobbyist—or want to try your hand at the DIY craft. The cooler months are the perfect time to dive ...

If you’re reading this and you were born after about 1945, it’s a near-certainty that you spent much of your youth building plastic scale model kits, probably including the timeless Visible V-8 or ...

If you're a hot rodder today, chances are your first car was a 1:24 scale model kit. For young gearheads not ready to turn a wrench or climb behind the wheel of a full-scale hot rod, model kits ...

Many auto enthusiasts first develop their passion for cars by building models. You know, the kind where you break the parts off of a plastic “tree” and then get glue all over the house trying to ...

SHIZUOKA (Japan): Chairman of the Japanese plastic model kit maker Tamiya Inc., Shunsaku Tamiya, known for its radio-controlled cars and Mini 4WD models, has died, the company has announced. He was 90 ...

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, ...

The late '60s and early '70s was not just a great era for drag racing, it was also a great era for model car kits. Coincidence? Nope. Funny Cars and Pro Stockers were injecting more excitement into an ...