Shunsaku Tamiya, who turned his family’s plastic model business into a global brand, held a scale replica of a German World War II Tiger tank at the hobby show in Shizuoka, Japan, in 2003 ...

Shunsaku Tamiya, chairman of the Japanese plastic model assembly kit maker Tamiya Inc., has died, the company said Tuesday. He was 90.

The Wild One was an iconic Tamiya model, launched in 1985 when radio-control cars were becoming more mainstream, capable and affordable. A one-tenth-scale rear-wheel-drive off-road buggy, the Wild ...