What better person than a professional model builder to give us some tips on putting together a plastic kit so it looks great?

This holiday season you can be sure that someone reading this story will either receive or give a scale-model kit as a gift.

I’d long been Gunpla (a portmanteau of “Gundam plastic model”) curious: I was a fan of many of the anime and manga on which the models are based. I love building Lego sets.