I've been into scale models for a little while now, and as far as hobbies go, I find it both fun and relaxing. Now, the hobby isn't for everyone, because it's basically a constant uphill process of ...

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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, ...

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 ...

If you're going to build a large-scale vintage model kit, you just can't go wrong with a beautiful 1/8-scale Citroën Traction-Avant kit— the Traction-Avant was decades ahead of its time and a ...

A scale model figure of the HAL Ajeet. To ensure accuracy in his models — including armaments and cockpits — Roy hunts for reference photographs of aircraft online.(Courtesy: Basu Roy) Seven years ago ...

On the hottest days of summer 2021, I was looking for a good hobby to pass the time in the great indoors, preferably something that didn’t require me to stare at another screen. I’d long been Gunpla ...

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 ...