Model kits first appeared in the 1930s and became increasingly popular in the 1950s. Today almost any prototype car, lorry, train. plane or shop can be found as a plastic kit.

The very first Tamiya plastic kit was a Jaguar D-type, a brass-chassis slot car with an injection-molded body. Military vehicles, aircraft, and race cars were all popular subjects as Tamiya’s ...

Shunsaku Tamiya, who transformed his father’s former sawmill into a leading manufacturer of plastic model kits, with a passion for detail that once led him to buy and disassemble a Porsche to ...

How Tamiya pioneered today's ultra-detailed model-car kits Marking the July passing of Tamiya chair Shunsaku Tamiya by looking at how his passion for accuracy shaped his scale-model company ...