We all grew up building scale models of our favorite cars (then blowing them up with firecrackers). Some of us kept building them. The best of those gather each year at the Petersen Automotive ...

Building scale model cars is a wonderful way for enthusiasts to pass the time and "own" the cars of their dreams. They're usually built from plastic kits, but one jeweler took his love affair for ...

Because of that, one father and son duo in Indiana decided to build their own scale model of Eldora, complete with banked turns, signage, and staging areas for the race cars themselves.

Scale model cars a refuge for Vietnam vetHis collection of more than 5,000 police, fire and emergency vehicles — prototypically accurate vehicles in 1/87th scale — is believed to be one of the ...

Building scale models is nice and all, but the real benefits will come when the technology is capable of manufacturing full-size vehicle components -- right now, the printer can only construct ...

Aside from drawing, Armando began building scale model cars and his main purpose was to replicate famous lowriders, such as the Las Vegas car and Loco 64. His model car builds were so accurate and ...

I daily-drove such a car during that period, and so I felt compelled to build a 1/25-scale model kit of a similar car, in similarly rough condition.

Ferrari plans to sell 299 scale replicas of its fabled 1950s Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa supercar at €93,000 (US$109,000) each, all built to Ferrari’s exacting standards with hand-beaten aluminum ...

In the early '60s, model car companies such as Monogram and AMT would create scale models of famous show cars of the era. But in 1963, Monogram asked customizer Darryl Starbird to build a fullsize ...

A look back at five memorable scale plastic model-car kits of Chevrolet products, plus a few misses and bloopers released over the years.

How Tamiya pioneered today's ultra-detailed model-car kits Marking the July passing of Tamiya chair Shunsaku Tamiya by looking at how his passion for accuracy shaped his scale-model company ...