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 ...

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, then, that you can also still buy and build the Visible V8 model engine kit, first sold by Renwal in 1958 and one of the longest-selling plastic model ...

He started on a new undertaking this past March when he became a research adviser specializing in the history of plastic toy kits, a new post created at leading plastic model maker Tamiya Inc.

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.

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 ...

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

Shunsaku Tamiya, who transformed his father’s former sawmill into a leading manufacturer of plastic model kits, with a passion for detail that once led him to buy and disassemble a Porsche to ...