Dave Klanica and his two sons, Patrick and Benjamin, roamed from table to table observing the model planes, ships, tanks and cars on display at the recent 19th annual Flying Tigers Scale Model ...

When I was a teenager, I used to build model airplanes. I spent all my pocket money on kits full of unpainted, unassembled plastic. I wasn’t very good at that hobby, but at least I can appreciate the ...

Richard Marriott is one of Harahan's most model citizens. When you enter his quaint shotgun style home, located about three blocks from the Mississippi River levee, you at once notice a three foot ...

Scale-model builders can't help but sweat the small stuff. Hobbyists spend hours—days even—sanding, gluing, painting and polishing bits and pieces of plastic to create miniature facsimiles of their ...

An Ariel Atom V8 costs over $200,000, although that probably doesn’t matter because Ariel Motors->ke563 only produced 25 units and all 25 units have been scooped up a long time ago. So what is it that ...

In an era where digital interactions often overshadow tactile experiences, the popular resurgence of model kit building ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- As a kid the circus made a big impression on Bob Guilfoyle of Liverpool who still remembers the shuffling sound the elephants feet made as they marched down the street on their way ...

A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented. Very often the scale model is smaller than the original and used ...