As an Autopian reader and former child, you probably at some point assembled at least one or two plastic model-kits with hopes to bring your four-wheeled fantasies into three-dimensional reality, even ...

When Yoshio Tamiya, the owner of a sawmill and lumber supply company based in Shizuoka City decided to use his surplus wood and delve into making model ships and airplanes, little did he know that he ...

Many car enthusiasts grew up playing with smaller versions of the cars they couldn't yet drive or afford, and so surely most know of Tamiya. The Japanese model toy company sells some of the coolest ...

There’s a natural progression for most young gearheads, anxious to get their hands on totemic representation of the cars and trucks they covet, but are still too young to legally own. It usually ...

Tamiya is a Japanese company that has been on the cutting edge of "hobby grade" remote control cars since 1976, when they released their first RC kit. Before that, they were in the lumber industry and ...

The large-scale model used in the first Star Wars film has plastic parts taken from Ferrari and McLaren race cars, among many others. The original Millennium Falcon built for the first Star Wars film ...