Hallmark Cards Inc. yesterday agreed to acquire Revell-Monogram Inc. of Morton Grove Ill., the world’s largest maker of plastic model kits, the companies said. Revell-Monogram will become an operating ...

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 ...

When I was growing up I made dozens and dozens of model cars, model planes and model rockets. I was never much good at painting them but I could put them together in a snap. The company that made so ...

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, ...

Here’s something really wonderful. [Dave Akerman] wrote up the results of his attempt to use a high-altitude balloon to try to re-create a famous image of NASA’s Bruce McCandless floating freely in ...

Some said it was just a fad, but when the first wave of 1:25-scale plastic model kits appeared around 1960, demand was so huge, the owners of plastic kit makers like AMT, Aurora, IMC, JoHan, Lindberg, ...