Sculpting a Life-Size Humpback Whale
Ever wonder how the giant animal sculptures in aquariums and natural museums were made? Sculptor Stephen Kesler shares his process.
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Inventing a Better Mousetrap, a History of American Patent Models
A new book from Make: exploring the history of early American invention through its patent models
Illuminated 38” Paper Millennium Falcon Took 4 Years to Build
It took master papercraft modeler Bernard Szukiel four painstaking years of squinting over tiny snips of paper and peeling PVA glue off of his fingers to complete this stunning Millennium Falcon. The model is 38″ long and made of 99% paper. The other 1%? It’s the many feet of fiber optic cable and LEDs he […]
Uncanny DC & Marvel Miniatures Fooled Us With Their Realism
Deviant Artist Xiang Zhang (aka NightT47), from Shanghai, China, paints (and implants hair on) 1/6 scale models with such proficiency and realism that he’s frequently accused of tricking us with Photoshop. He isn’t. Check out his Deviant Art gallery to see him work his magic on Heath Ledger’s Joker, Scarlett Johansson, Christian Bale, Tom Hiddleston’s […]
Explore This Rare Gallery of Hyper Detailed Star Wars Models
The site Slightly Warped Curiosities has posted this wonderful, rare gallery of close-up photos of the Industrial Light & Magic spaceship models used in the first Star Wars trilogy. Anyone who scratch-builds models knows the importance of “grebble” — that’s the baroque surface detail–usually cool-looking bits “kit-bashed” from other models–added to make a ship look more […]
Papercraft Boeing Airplane Made from File Folders
You can just go ahead and file this Boeing 777 made entirely from manilla envelopes by Luca Iaconi-Stewart under the incredibly constructed sculptures from everyday materials category as far as I’m concerned.
The Makers of Things
There’s something about Britain, it’s the land of God’s own hobbyists. The Makers of Things is a short film collection by Anne Hollowday documenting the work and workshops of the Society for Model and Experimental Engineers. While today we hackerspaces, makerspaces and fab labs, back in the 1800’s they had the learned society.
