If you like crafty projects and tinkering with mechanical parts, building models kits is probably one of your hobbies. It’s satisfying to work with your hands on a model kit, plus you get to learn the ...

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 ...

In 1967, model-making kit manufacturers Revell ran advertisements for “the wildest, way out prize ever awarded in any contest.” What was the prize? Your own 19-foot-long prototype of a Gemini capsule.