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Now, more men than boys build model cars and planes. The first plastic model kit was a Royal Air Force bomber made in England in 1936, Jessee said. After World War II, car kits began using plastics ...

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 ...

Many auto enthusiasts first develop their passion for cars by building models. You know, the kind where you break the parts off of a plastic “tree” and then get glue all over the house trying to ...

BILLINGS – Building model cars and airplanes from kits once was as much a part of an American boyhood as baseball. “In 1960, a lot of kids had a ball, glove, baseball cards and a model kit,” said ...

Members of the International Plastic Modelers Society of Ocala scale down everything but the fun. “It all about fun,” said Dan Murtz, 70, at recent gathering of members. Murtz, a scale plastic model ...

Both Kotobukiya and Good Smile Company offer elaborate model kits of female characters to build. The former sells its Frame Arms Girls, Megami Devices, Sousai Shojo Teien, and new Arca Nadea line.

There's an uncontested rule that giant robots make everything better, from film and television to video games and quickly settling disputes with your neighbors. Until the technology to make a massive ...