For enthusiasts of a certain age, building a model-car kit—or multiple kits—was a rite of passage. But regardless of when you were born, it's a fact that many car fanatics from Detroit ...

It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, and there are kits of everything from military vehicles to sports cars and anime ...

Model kits first appeared in the 1930s and became increasingly popular in the 1950s. Today almost any prototype car, lorry, train. plane or shop can be found as a plastic kit. The plastic is ...

Plastic is cheaper, lighter and can be molded into many shapes that metal cannot. Plastic model car kits generally have more parts than metal kits. They require more painstaking assembly to ...

Back then, the outsides of model kit boxes featured fabulous and exciting illustrations of the street rods and race cars that were replicated, in unpainted 1:24-scale pieces of plastic ...

Model car kits were the gateway into the hot rod hobby ... many others never gave up the fun of plastic 1:25 scale hot rods, even as they wrenched on real operational rods. Related: Sign up ...