A model of a Lockheed Constellation built from a non-standard scales nearly 60 years old. Back then, most models were designed to fit a very specific box size. [Courtesy: Terry Moore] Scale modeling, ...

A year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently he finished the project and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re near Meiringen in Switzerland over the next few days, look up and you might be treated to an incredible spectacle, as almost 100 highly skilled aeromodellers take to the skies above the ...

A scale model figure of the HAL Ajeet. To ensure accuracy in his models — including armaments and cockpits — Roy hunts for reference photographs of aircraft online.(Courtesy: Basu Roy) Seven years ago ...

A real Boeing 777 takes 50 days hundreds of people to build, but one student has created an impressive miniature paper version of the jetliner. Luca Iaconi-Stewart crafted the incredible replica ...

When pilots in the Leeward Air Ranch fly-in community hear “yellow airplane departing runway 1-8 or 3-6” over their aircraft radios, they know Ray Parker, 93, is about to take off in his self-built RV ...

Leonardo Di Caprio may have a nomination for the best actor award at this year’s Academy Awards, but the real stars of “The Aviator,” Martin Scorsese’s biopic of playboy tycoon Howard Hughes, are the ...