Watch a Master Modeler Build a Hyper-Detailed WWII Airplane
A scale modeler takes a plane kit from plain to impressively detailed and gorgeously painted.
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Adam Savage Builds His Childhood Home in Foamcore
The ever-industrious Adam Savage uses foamcore and a hobby knife to bring his childhood back to life.
Over 4,000 Empty Pen Refills Went into These Miniature Landmarks
“Disposable” pens have plastic parts that end up in landfills. M. R. Sreenivasulu decided to collect them and build something beautiful.
This Modern Ship in a Bottle Is Lit with LEDs and Fiber Optics
LEDs give a ghostly glow to this modern take on a ship in a bottle.
A Magical Museum of Hyperreal Miniatures
These jaw-dropping miniature diorama scenes are one man’s lifetime obsession that is open to the public.
The Out of This World Air Show
One of the reasons people build scale models is for the suspension of disbelief they can experience while contemplating their finished creations. When you build a spaceship, you have your imagined moments inside that ship. Same with a muscle car. Or a WWII diorama. So it only makes sense, in our increasingly analog-digital hybrid world, […]
This Isn’t a Drawing, This is a Physical Model
You’d be forgiven for doing a double-take, a triple-take, or even insisting that this is a clever ‘shop job, but you’d be mistaken. This is a 1/12-scale version of a power suit model from the Starship Troopers anime series, done by Japanese modeler mumumuno53. To achieve this amazing effect, he relied on using a paper-colored […]
