Flexiscale, the company that crowdsources and crowdfunds model kits, made a showing at the World Maker Faire. We’ve seen their work before, but this time we got to touch base with [Chris Thorpe] and ...

Chris Thorpe wants to create a replica of trains using lasers. Like any serious hobby, model trains offer the enthusiast any number of rabbit holes to travel down. There are dozens of scales and ...

While autos are in a sales slump during the coronavirus shutdown, build-it-yourself plastic versions at 1/25th the size are flying off the shelves. Revell, the 77-year-old model kit-maker that was ...

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 brand is releasing two plastic model kits of the iconic CFA-44 Nosferatu fighter, which debuted in Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation and has recently been featured as a DLC in Ace Combat 7: Skies ...

Children don’t really change much from generation to generation, which explains the evergreen appeal of many children’s toys, games, and amusements that were created generations ago and are still ...

A year after he retired from TV Asahi Corp., after 37 years working as an announcer and news reporter, Yasumasa Matsui finally achieved his childhood dream. Matsui, now 61, left the news business in ...

Gunpla, or Gundam plastic models, have captivated fans worldwide, with more than 800 million kits sold to date. On September 2, a new hands-on museum opened inside Bandai Hobby Center’s newest factory ...