Making a model boat kit is not just great fun, it can improve a kid’s coordination and can also be educational. Of course, model boats aren’t just for children. Complex models give hours of pleasure ...

Even to the most stalwart do-it-yourselfer, the idea of building a boat may seem daunting. After all, the traditional boatbuilding arts — lofting, steam-bending planks, joining lapstrake, etc. — ...

Model making is a great hobby, but knowing how and where to start is another story. It can be overwhelming for novices: Injection-molded plastic models have been on the market for close to a century, ...

The Life Sized Model Boat Kit is the ingenious creation of Swedish artist Michael Johansson, and as you can see from the photos, it is based on those model kits that many of us assembled during our ...

If you worked at Tamiya, the Japanese model-kit company, you'd have the chance to hand out the coolest business-card ever made. At first glance the letters on the "card" look like a stencil cut into ...

Which model boat kits are best? Building model boats is a great way for hobbyists of any age to learn patience, engineering and dexterity in a single assembly kit. These challenging models can come in ...