The phrase "a plastic model" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a model made from plastic material, often in contexts like hobbies, crafts, or educational projects.
Example: "He spent the afternoon assembling a plastic model of a vintage car."
Alternatives: "a plastic replica" or "a plastic figurine."
Like many of his designs, the Surfite was available as a plastic model kit.
Equally literal is "the elephant in the room" – a plastic model of a white elephant behind George's chair.
"Monique," a light social satire with an acerbic feminist subtext, plays diabolically with the notion of the human body as sexually inferior to a plastic model.
"The best I've seen [of the Titanic] is a plastic model sitting in the offices of Mineralogy at 380 Queen Street," Park said.
But Mr. McNinch plans to introduce a plastic model that he says will retail for less than $1.50, without the cartridges.
When Rockwell International was trying to build political support for the proposal to build the space shuttle, it approached him to manufacture a plastic model of it.
When I showed her a small plastic model of a wolf (I keep a variety of such objects, for perceptual testing, in my medical bag), she exclaimed, "A marvellous animal!
After a few attempts, a printed plastic model was made, and Mr Wenman also fashioned spinning thread to fall through the statue's arms.
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) methods are applied, implementing a Bingham plastic model in a homogeneous fluid, in order to predict fiber orientation.
I've Shakespeare to encourage me too - a naff, plastic model of him, with a nodding head, bought from the Huntingdon Library in California.
since his Shortly after Knut's death, the director of the museum, Ferdinand Damaschun, said he hoped Knut's fur could be mounted on a lifesize plastic model and used as part of an exhibit on climate change.
