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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Most of the kits found on the toy floor of the Akiba Yodobashi aren't even cars; if you seek to build a room-sized diorama of, say, the Battle of Tsushima, this place offers all the ship kits you'd ...

Classic cars found at New Generations of Harmony. For many, the next best thing was to buy, collect and build a muscle car from a variety of model car kits. Hundreds of different kits of molded ...

I have the utmost respect for people who are patient and skilled enough to build model car kits. I've chosen the more straightforward path of buying read-to-go vehicles. It takes a lot less time and ...

Model car kits were the gateway into the hot rod hobby for many, maybe most, hot rodders. And while a lot of enthusiasts moved away from models when they got old enough to start building cars, many ...