Welcome to part four of Model Industry History. This waltz down memory lane still passes through Monogram Models. This episode covers those famous Shep Paine diorama brochures Monogram included with many of their kits in the 1970s.

Bill Cross reviews THE super-detailer's book by THE authority on the Vought F4U-1 Corsair. Dana Bell has written the ultimate guide to the cockpit to satisfy information junkies and anyone looking to improve any Corsair model.

Adam just received a full complement of Mission Model's premium hobby paints, and he embarks on a speed build of portable paint racks to properly store the over 120 bottles. It's the perfect example of a build that Adam loves constructing manually with th...

Kayte shows a simple and effective way to turn old chip brushes into small scale diorama bushes that you can use for tabletop gaming or diorama terrain!

ARTITEC has joined forces with the Dutch national Foundation of Cooperating Aid Organisations to raise funds for Ukraine.

Hot off the press and on the heals of the previous history of Monogram and Aurora model companies is this correcting the record of the latter's molds disposition.

Remember models by Aurora Plastics Corporation? Recall they went away in the mid-1970s, and Monogram bought them? Ever wonder why many kits were not reissued, and if the legendary train wreck that destroyed tooling actually happened? This will set the...

In the 1980s, Monogram Models put together an industry presentation of the process of making a plastic model, from concept to the finished product. This is the first part of that project.

For this edition of Model Behavior, Kayte and Norm try their hands at assembling a pair of 1/220 scale architectural papercraft models from Sankei.

Adie Roberts continues his inspirations to help inspire modellers of all abilities to work out of their comfort zone building dioramas or just trying new builds.

Armorama will be turning 20 years old this December. And at just about this point of the year in 2006, KitMaker was first unveiled, so that makes most of our other sites 15 years old.

Nanofabrica, an Israeli tech firm, makes a 3D printer that prints at extremely fine levels of scale. The Tera 250 combines semiconductor lithography and advanced optics together with 3D printing. While not for the hobbyist, it does show what kit manufactu...

Plasmo on YouTube built this airbrush from spare household and medical supplies. Amazing!

This will be the new home for our 'general' modeling news, reviews, and primary point of entry for new visitors to the KitMaker Network.

We live in the information age. So when you do a search for the term 'model' what do you get? Not the scale model kits you were looking for an probably some images that are not safe for work.