Ah, the humble art of model-making: flexing your patience, creativity, and precision motor skills to render your favorite vintage cars, trains, planes, and giant anime robots at 1/1000 scale. Model ...

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, ...

You could call Jerome Smith a model citizen. That’s because of the 89-year-old’s lifelong hobby: collecting and building models of classic boats and airplanes. The shelves, walls, ceilings and even ...

PARIS – He hunches at the dining room table, putting the finishing touches on his miniature World War II tank. Deep in concentration, he keeps his hand steady as he works to make the scaled-down ...

Over the summer last year I took my daughters out to Bong State Recreation Area in Wisconsin. The massive park offers miles and miles of walking and riding trails, large camping areas, a place to ride ...

Jayne Smith's grandson, Preston, is 5 years old and seeing the Great Lakes and lake freighters for the first time. He's from Mesa, Arizona, and there's not much water there. "With the big ships, his ...