Shay Aaron is a Tel Aviv based maker of miniatures, who specialises in crafting scale models of foodstuffs.

Definitely tasty.

Via Colossal.

If you wanted – for whatever reason – to build a scale model of the first “Star Wars” Death Star using LEGO pieces, so that standard size LEGO figurines could occupy it, you would need a space about four kilometres wide and high, given the finished object would be some three and half kilometres in diameter.

So, a to-scale Lego Death Star (first version) would be 0.022 times the diameter of the REAL Death Star. This would put the diameter of the Lego Death Star at 3.52 km. That’s a pretty big Lego model.

A Canadian man, Joe Murray, is excavating the basement of his house using only radio controlled scale model tractors, diggers, and bulldozers, to do the job.

At an average rate of eight or nine cubic feet of earth moved each year, the process has been absolutely glacial. But what do you expect when every morning he drives his little excavator on its transport truck down to the basement, unloads it, and then uses it to dig out the basement walls.

A left-of-field remedy for both the Monday blues, and priming your mind for the work day ahead… look at photos of nude, or scantily clad, models. Seriously. Researchers at Finland’s University of Tampere and Aalto University stumbled upon the gender unspecific method of boosting brain function during a recent study into, presumably, workplace productivity.

Professor Jari Hietanen noted that the more undressed the models were, the quicker the gray matter in the brain sprung into action. The brain worked faster and more efficiently to process the nude bodies and was increasingly slower to function the more clothes the models wore.

It certainly gives new meaning to the term morning heart-starter. But better than coffee for achieving the same thing? The jury’s out on that one. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Distillation features a series of dioramas made by New York artist Thomas Doyle that have an ominously apocalyptic feel, and bring to mind films such as The Road or The Book of Eli.

On the subject of dinosaurs, Akinobu, a Japanese maker of architectual models, creates all sorts of minuature objects including dinosaur skeletons, and then bottles them.

At last, a range of action figures based on 2001: A Space Odyssey. While I’d have preferred something along the lines USS Discovery in this regard, I’d still be happy to settle for a Monolith Action Figure.

This how-to guide, from the September 2006 edition of “Boys’ Life” magazine, makes the process of building a model ship in a bottle look rather simple…

Building a ship in a bottle only looks mysterious. With patience, skill and a few tools, you can finish a bottle craft while your friends wonder, “How’d he do that?”

Taking an actual dinghy and its components, Michael Johansson has welded everything together with metal piping to create a life-size kitset model.

15 years and four million matchsticks later, former oil rig worker David Reynolds has finally completed building a scale model oil rig – which weights in at almost half a ton.

He managed to source most of the matchsticks at wholesale, rather than retail, prices saving well over A$80,000…