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 ...
Some said it was just a fad, but when the first wave of 1:25-scale plastic model kits appeared around 1960, demand was so huge, the owners of plastic kit makers like AMT, Aurora, IMC, JoHan, Lindberg, ...