We all grew up building scale models of our favorite cars (then blowing them up with firecrackers). Some of us kept building them. The best of those gather each year at the Petersen Automotive Museum ...

If you’re setting out to build a cabin or building a shed, take the time to create a scale model first. It’s the single biggest advantage you can give yourself when it comes to saving money and ...

Christopher Petersen often describes what he does as “building memories.” Petersen, 63, lives in Colorado but grew up in Park Ridge, in a white house on Washington Street. That house has seen some ...

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 ...

Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

Joe Lewis of Cedar Rapids has been staying busy this winter building scale models of things we see every day out of an unusual material -- wooden clothespins. He also uses Popsicle sticks and small ...