(I, unwisely, use my fingers to cut out plastic parts from die-cast kits. Don’t ... such as AMT, Revell, and Tamiya, plus a few from Lego. These model car kids span all experience levels ...

For enthusiasts of a certain age, building a model-car kit—or multiple kits ... fresh plastic. See All 20 Photos See All 20 Photos Funny Hugger II Camaro Funny Car by AMT With the successful ...

Enjoy. Mark Lewis: "This 1965 Pontiac Grand Prix kit by AMT [kit T322-200] is one of the rarest model car kits in existence. When I say that, I'm not talking about the plastic parts inside—they ...

These days, the majority of model kits are made of plastic, and fewer are metal or ... Along with the train’s main engine car, the model kit also includes a gondola car filled with coal to ...

Model kits first appeared in the 1930s and became increasingly popular in the 1950s. Today almost any prototype car, lorry, train. plane or shop can be found as a plastic kit. The plastic is ...

The decades of the 1960s and 1970s were great times for builders of plastic model kits featuring crazy customization jobs; your Testors-scented kit-builder could walk into the local hobby shop and ...

Model making is a great hobby ... Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, and there are kits of everything from military vehicles to sports cars and ...

Plastic is cheaper, lighter and can be molded into many shapes that metal cannot. Plastic model car kits generally have more parts than metal kits. They require more painstaking assembly to ...

Less than two years after it was completed, the Dodge Deora became a legendary custom, an official Crysler concept, an AMT plastic scale-model kit ... By the 1960s, car customization - either ...

(I, unwisely, use my fingers to cut out plastic parts from die-cast kits. Don’t ... such as AMT, Revell, and Tamiya, plus a few from Lego. These model car kids span all experience levels ...

Often molded in colored plastic, these Pro-Stock Series kits are highly collectible ... between rival kit makers, the AMT AMXpress 3-in-1 Funny Car model (kit T294) was actually designed and ...