When I was a kid, there was nothing more relaxing than sitting down for an afternoon with a model kit. Snipping the parts off the board, patiently gluing everything together, painting each careful ...

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 ...

A model of a Lockheed Constellation built from a non-standard scales nearly 60 years old. Back then, most models were designed to fit a very specific box size. [Courtesy: Terry Moore] Scale model ...

There's an uncontested rule that giant robots make everything better, from film and television to video games and quickly settling disputes with your neighbors. Until the technology to make a massive ...

For those unfamiliar with model kits, the toy genre kicked off thanks to a franchise called Gundam. The mech series has become a merch juggernaut thanks to its addictive Gunpla kits. Now, that same ...

Inside a Hong Kong shopping centre store that doubles as his hobby room and workshop, Manson Ng is working on an unfinished model kit. This 250 sq ft (23 square metre) space, crammed full of Gundam ...