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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 ...

Which metal model-car kit is best? Metal model-car kits combine problem-solving, hand-eye coordination, automotive design, mechanical engineering, and arts and crafts ...

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 ...

Which Revell model car kits are best? Revell has been making plastic scale model car kits for more than 60 years. Their model car kits are a great introduction to automotive design and mechanical ...

3D printing tiny cars isn't new, but this creator's work lets you print a Revell- or Tamiya-style kit you can assemble yourself, just like the good old days. The site is kind of like Etsy for folks ...

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 ...

Lego’s design team also worked closely with the actual McLaren racing team to get as close to the real thing as possible, which is apparent in the small details like the sponsor ...

The Peel P50, produced in the early 1960s, was the smallest production automobile in the world. And now a new kit allows handy folks to build their own replica, although this time, it’s electric! To ...

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 ...

The late '60s and early '70s was not just a great era for drag racing, it was also a great era for model car kits. Coincidence? Nope. Funny Cars and Pro Stockers were injecting more excitement into an ...