Dave Klanica and his two sons, Patrick and Benjamin, roamed from table to table observing the model planes, ships, tanks and cars on display at the recent 19th annual Flying Tigers Scale Model ...

COLUMBIA-- The Central Missouri Scale Modelers Club (CMSM) held a statewide competition Saturday bringing together scale model enthusiasts from throughout Missouri. TigerCon 2012 was the second annual ...

When I was a teenager, I used to build model airplanes. I spent all my pocket money on kits full of unpainted, unassembled plastic. I wasn’t very good at that hobby, but at least I can appreciate the ...

Richard Marriott is one of Harahan's most model citizens. When you enter his quaint shotgun style home, located about three blocks from the Mississippi River levee, you at once notice a three foot ...

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So you want to be an astronaut? Walter Eggert has this suggestion: Begin training by building and flying scale model airplanes. Eggert, contest director for the 41st annual Eastern States Model ...

Scale-model builders can't help but sweat the small stuff. Hobbyists spend hours—days even—sanding, gluing, painting and polishing bits and pieces of plastic to create miniature facsimiles of their ...