Shizuoka is known for its plastic models and other hobby items. Home to manufacturers like Tamiya and Bandai, it boasts a legacy of skilled craftsmanship dating back to feudal times. We visit ...

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, ...

The process of building a plastic model car can be as time consuming and intensive as building a full-size car. Model builders suffer the same issues as their counterparts do. There is the hunt for ...

Ever felt melancholic thinking about the Airfix-type model kits you used to have so much fun with assembling when you were a kid? We guess there isn’t one fellow who played with these models who ...