When I was a kid, there was nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon with a model kit. Snipping the parts off the board, patiently gluing everything together, painting each careful ...

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Architect Damien Murtagh developed a model building system, similar to Lego, that allows architects flexibility in designing and constructing, as well as giving clients a better way to comprehend a ...

Building plastic model kits was a staple of kids’—and some dads’ too—weekends in the 1960s. But is it still? It can be with the wide array of motorcycle model kits currently available. From cruisers ...

A College Station Navy veteran who deployed to Iraq during the 2007 surge now uses model building as therapy and wants to ...

A model of a Lockheed Constellation built from a non-standard scales nearly 60 years old. Back then, most models were designed to fit a very specific box size. [Courtesy: Terry Moore] Scale modeling ...

Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

Kids weren't the only hot rodders building models. These kits appealed to adults, too—and still do. That's proven by the quality of models you'll find at shows, and by the fact that some of the kits ...

Model car kit box art from the '60s is one of the most overlooked styles of American illustration—except by hot rodders. The level of model building has never been higher than it is today. The ...