It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, then, that you can also still buy and build the Visible V8 model engine kit, first sold by Renwal in 1958 and one of the longest-selling plastic model ...

As injection-molded plastic rose to prominence in the 1950s and 60s, Tamiya made the move to the new technology, and the first plastic Tamiya kits began to appear on store shelves in Japan.

He has been a plastic model hobbyist for more than 50 years. When he was living in Toyama Prefecture as a youngster, Matsui was fascinated by the complexity of plastic model kits, marketed as kids ...