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 [...]

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…

Talk about downsizing art, sculptures or figurines small enough to fit on the head of a pin, or in the eye of a sewing needle, made by Willard Wigan.

Paper architect Ingrid Siliakus crafts sometimes very intricate and detailed objects, usually buildings, from a single sheet of paper.
Drawing paper architecture designs to Ingrid is as building: first one layer, with a single shape, will be drawn and than layer after layer are added. To design a pattern from scratch, the artist needs the skills [...]

Photos of the “world’s smallest things”, a collection of super-small everyday items.
Aside, quite possibly, from the iguana.

Just as fascinating as cutaway illustrations, exploded images or models, are a great way to appreciate the workings, or at least the components, of many everyday items.
My own fascination with exploded diagrams on paper goes back to childhood and years spent playing with Erector sets or assembling plastic model airplanes and automobiles. (I think I [...]

Sometimes morbid, sometimes funny, the tilt shift like dioramas of Jonah Samson.
Via Design Federation.

An amazing collection of model bridges, towers, and assorted other objects made entirely from carefully stacking coins on top of each other.

Incredible. Two very detailed and intricate LEGO representations of the inauguration of US president Barack Obama.