Today, in addition to vintage model kits on eBay and Revell’s reissued Visible V8 kit you can buy a variety of “visible” engine model kits, ranging from generic inline-fours to V-8s.

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

Like Dr. Frankenstein himself, Joe Mariani takes the remnants of the old and reassembles them into something new. In his case, it’s refurbishing old model kits, particularly ones based on the ...

According to Modeling Madness, which reviews vintage model kits, “The F-19 kit is a fairly simple kit compared to the ones today as it consists of 62 black parts and 4 clear parts.

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.