A regal 1891 home, with its wrap-around veranda porch complete with wicker chairs, swings and other furniture, looks inviting enough to stop and stay. Polished black-and-white tiles create a clean ...

Transforming work environments into miniature scale models has proven to be an outlet for some army and navy personnel. Once a year, scale model fanatics from as far as Brisbane and Townsville gather ...

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

When Mario Marangoni first visited the Australian War Memorial as an eight-year-old he was left in awe of the detailed dioramas on display. "As a young child, seeing the large-scale dioramas sort of ...

Two days before Christmas Eve, Jack Giambanco was trying to finish his last customer order of the season — a miniature model of a local business twice the size of his usual pieces, which measure about ...

Everyone loves models, but not everyone loves making them. For some, models bring up memories of fingers full of dry glue, cuts from sharp pieces, wasted materials, and large doses of frustration. For ...

It started as a list on a piece of paper, a way for Fred Olheiser to learn the names of his neighbors. Then he plotted the cul-de-sac where he lives on a 32-by-52-inch sheet of plywood and thought: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Model villages have been delighting visitors for decades with their detailed replicas of the world's greatest landmarks. We've ...