Don, Rod & Custom Magazine started running a monthly feature about model car building in 1958, the last year of the famed "little pages", meaning that we HS kids could sneak a copy of R&C into study hall, folded up into a textbook!!!). R&C kept at model car and slot car racing coverage until late
1963, when they brought out "Rod & Custom Models", which ran through 1964. Car Model Magazine hit in, I believe, 1963, published by Oscar Kovaleski Jr--owner of Auto World, the mail-order hobby shop (and son of the man who produced some of the very first scale model car kits with plastic detail parts, right after WW-II). Model Car Science and Model Car & Track magazines followed right on the heels of MC, in late 63-early 64.In 1964, "American Modeler", now long gone, stared putting plastic aircraft model articles in the magazine, the first article being done by none other than the "First Lady of IPMS", the late Doris Reeves, with pictures and drawings by the late Alan Bingaman, both from right here in Lafayette, IN.
Scale Auito Enthusiast came out in August 1979, now known simply as Scale Auto. There was also a short-lived model car magazine, International Modeler, published out of Los Angeles in the late 70's, as well as a couple of issues of Scale Auto Modeler, from Challenge Publicatins.
In addition, there was an excellent hand-done format "magazine" of sorts, the bi-monthly newsletter/journal of the old International Association of Automotive Modelers, published out of Chicago by Tim McLaughlin, the founder of the organization.
Plenty of old print matte has been done over the years.