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 builder keeps applying glue gingerly to the various components until construction is complete and a fine motor car, ocean-going vessel or aeroplane is created in miniature. Plastic modelling is a ...

Airfix, provider of plastic aircraft kits to generations of schoolboys, has been grounded by a combination of debt and supply… Airfix, provider of plastic aircraft kits to generations of schoolboys, ...

He turned his family’s lumber business into a manufacturer of model kits that won global popularity for their quality and historical accuracy. By Martin Fackler and Kiuko Notoya Reporting from Tokyo ...

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 ...

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A year after he retired from TV Asahi Corp., after 37 years working as an announcer and news reporter, Yasumasa Matsui finally achieved his childhood dream. Matsui, now 61, left the news business in ...

Bandai is opening a new museum dedicated to its Mobile Suit Gundam plastic model kits on September 2, 2025 in Shizuoka, Japan. The museum will not only allow visitors to learn about everything Gunpla, ...

Kotobukiya revealed that it will restock its Mega Man X plastic model kits of X and Zero. The kits originally came out in 2019 and 2020, respectively. People who missed the initial batches will have ...