What do you get when you combine 282,000 wood matchsticks, eight gallons of wood glue and 1,950 hours of production time? For Iowa artist Patrick Acton the answer is an incredible 1/26 scale, museum ...

Neat post on Make, reporting from the NYC Toy Fair, about these amazing models available for purchase. Using small wooden dowels (just like classic matchsticks), you too can build a locomotive, or the ...

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Hour by hour, stick by stick. Many would regard it as a tedious job to glue matchsticks together, wait for them to dry then repeat this process over and over again, but not this model-maker. Over the ...

It all started when vocational counselor Patrick Acton glued two wooden matchsticks together in the basement of his Gladbrook, Iowa, home. Some four decades and nearly 6 million matchsticks later, ...

GLADBROOK | Even on a resume packed with jaw-dropping projects notable for both size and detail, Patrick Acton's latest effort -- "Plane Loco" -- stands out. "It's a monster," JoAnn Ruopp says. "But ...

Philip Warren, 79, from Blandford, said he has copied every craft from every Royal Navy class using 6,500 wooden matchboxes and 650,000 matchsticks. "They are all modern warships dating from the time ...

Patrick Acton, 59, used 298,000 matchsticks and a whopping 55 litres of wood glue to assemble the 7.5ft long by 5ft high (2.3m x structure. He spent 2,000 hours on the piece, but he can take solace in ...

The model was built in 1979 by Reg Pollard and had been on display in the church until 1998 but had suffered damage due to the damp and dust inside the building. St Nicholas', on Kingsway, was built ...