Model car kit box art from the '60s is one of the most overlooked styles of American illustration—except by hot rodders. The level of model building has never been higher than it is today. The ...

It's a safe bet everyone reading this magazine has built at least one model car kit in their lifetime. If you're over 40, the likelihood goes way up. Regardless of age, it's a fact that many car ...

When you were a kid, chances are you couldn’t afford a real Chaparral 2E, Porsche 906 or Rat Fink Beatnik Bandit. But you could afford a Revell, Monogram, Etsy or AMT model of them. While most of us ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Start your engines . . . or at least, start building them. The Long Island Auto Replica Society, catering to a small but passionate crowd of hobbyists who enjoy building model cars to scale, hosts its ...

But although we’ve all heard of Airfix, hands up anyone who knows where the company is based? No, not Hull: that plant closed in 2008. In fact, it’s in Margate, on the Kent coast. These days, Airfix ...

Which lowrider model car kits are best? When you think of a lowrider, do you think of the song? Or do you think of the car scene that developed in Los Angeles back in the ’40s and still lives on today ...

Earlier today, in the holographic video-conference dome where we conduct all daily Jalopnik business, someone threw up a holo-JPG of a model kit. It was a Magnum PI-themed kit, but instead of the ...