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 ...

If you’re reading this and you were born after about 1945, it’s a near-certainty that you spent much of your youth building plastic scale model kits, probably including the timeless Visible V-8 or ...