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 bought them at Korvette’s or Modell’s — boxed model kits of glue-it-yourself planes, trains and automobiles, monsters, spaceships and superheroes. And while many companies made model kits, the ...