Editing Plastic model kit (section)

{{Short description|Scale model kit}}
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{{Hatnote|In art and architecture, plastic model may also be any three-dimensional [[physical model]], regardless of material. In mechanical engineering, it is a [[mathematical model]] of a material which incorporates plasticity.}}
{{No footnotes|date=December 2022}}[[image:South-Goodwin.jpg|thumb|300px|A young boy starts painting an assembled plastic model of the [[South Goodwin Lightship]]
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A '''plastic model kit''', ([[wikt:plamodel|plamo]] in [[Eastern world|Eastern]] influenced parlance),{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} is a consumer-grade [[plastic]] [[scale model]] manufactured as a [[wikt:kit|kit]], primarily assembled by [[hobby]]ists, and intended primarily for display. A plastic model kit depicts various subjects, ranging from real life military and civilian vehicles to characters and machinery from original kit lines and pop fiction, especially from eastern pop culture. A kit varies in difficulty, ranging from a "snap-together" model that assembles straight from the box, to a kit that requires special tools, paints, and plastic cements.