As an Autopian reader and former child, you probably at some point assembled at least one or two plastic model-kits with ...

Any visitor to the city of Shizuoka, a medium-sized city in the belly of Japan’s main island of Honshu, might turn a corner ...

This was my very first 1:25-scale plastic model kit—ever. The year was 1972, I was eight years old and Mom wasn't convinced I was ready for stinky (and toxic) model cement just yet.

The two most popular scales for model aircraft are 1/48 and 1/72. 1/48 scale is sometimes referred to as “quarter-inch” scale because 1/4 of an inch on the model equals 1 foot on the real ...

Since the previous Scale Model Kit of the Week was a "Fuzz Duster" Plymouth Volaré, we're going to represent The Fuzz this week with a Fujimi 1/24-scale Toyota Previa (known as the Estima in its ...