Tamiya mainly produced wooden ship model kit at first. But in the '50s, all-plastic models had became popular and Tamiya got into the business too. The image below is the advertisement of their first ...

The process of building a plastic model car can be as time consuming and intensive as building a full-size car. Model builders suffer the same issues as their counterparts do. There is the hunt for ...

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, ...

Members of the International Plastic Modelers Society of Ocala scale down everything but the fun. “It all about fun,” said Dan Murtz, 70, at recent gathering of members. Murtz, a scale plastic model ...

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 ...