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 ...

While we're pretty accustomed to seeing those dedicated to plastic modeling (puramo, as it is often shortened in Japan) craft impressive anime-themed works such as dioramas that look stunningly like ...

For enthusiasts of a certain age, building a model-car kit—or multiple kits—was a rite of passage. But regardless of when you were born, it's a fact that many car fanatics from Detroit designers to ...

Some iconic movie cars have become so popular that they get replicated a lot. The Mustang Eleanor, the Dukes of Hazard Dodge Charger, and the Bumblebee Camaro come to mind. The Ghostbusters Ecto-1, on ...

Less than two years after it was completed, the Dodge Deora became a legendary custom, an official Crysler concept, an AMT plastic scale-model kit, and one of the very first Hot Wheels die-cast toy ...

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 ...

Many model railroaders have the mindset of looking at items not for what they are but what they might become. I count myself ...

Scale model enthusiasts from across the world converged on Telford to show off their creations in the world's largest show of its kind. Did you know with a Plus subscription to Shropshire Star you get ...

During the 1930s, the Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod vehicle manufacturer in the Soviet Union arranged with the Ford Motor Company to build Model As under license. By 1936, GAZ had also licensed the ...