Truck driver spends decades carving a scale model masterpiece of New York City

Beginning in 2004, Joe Macken carved all five boroughs of New York City out of balsa wood, every site and stadium, and every ...
Hackaday

Building A Giant Remote Controlled Model Airbus A380 In A Year

A year ago [Ramy RC] set out on a momentous challenge: to build a 1:21 scale Airbus A380-800 RC model with functional engines, landing gear and all other details. Recently he finished the project and ...
Motor Authority

Scale Ford Escort Mk II made from silver, gold and diamonds

Building scale model cars is a wonderful way for enthusiasts to pass the time and "own" the cars of their dreams. They're usually built from plastic kits, but one jeweler took his love affair for the ...
NOLA.com

Model citizen: Richard Marriott continues to pursue lifelong passion for model building

Richard Marriott is one of Harahan's most model citizens. When you enter his quaint shotgun style home, located about three blocks from the Mississippi River levee, you at once notice a three foot ...
autoweek

Now You Can Build a Scale Model Kit of Hyundai's First Car

This kit even comes with a 1:24-scale replica of an idealized first-gen Pony owner, a smartly-dressed South Korean woman. Is she counting the days until the release of the Hyundai Grandeur (which ...
Hackaday

model making

In our community we’re no strangers to making things, and there are plenty among us who devote their efforts to modelmaking. It’s uncommon, though, for a scale model of something to be made using the ...