You’ve probably seen scale models before—toy trucks, the battlefield diorama at the Gettysburg History Center, Elijah Wood—but you’ve probably never seen them at the scale that filmmakers Wylie ...

A scale model is a representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object being represented. Very often the scale model is smaller than the original and used ...

You can build a model of the Great Pyramid, but first you need to scale it down. To do this, you will need to make the pyramid 3,000 times smaller than it really is! To achieve that, every 30 meters ...

For enthusiasts of a certain age, building a model-car kit—or multiple kits—was a rite of passage. But regardless of when you were born, it's a fact that many car fanatics from Detroit designers to ...

TBRC is your source for in-depth reviews on how model aircraft fly, what to expect when buying a new aircraft, and tutorials on how to fly RC planes. Originally a team of two brothers-in-law, we're no ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. The work of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers often goes largely unseen and ...

A slick carbon-fiber scale model from startup CovaConcepts shows off the latter concept in a fun new video. Both hydrofoils and hydroplanes are designed to make water travel faster, more efficient, ...

Regent Craft Inc. successfully completed test flights of a quarter-scale model of its electric seaglider, a wing-in-ground-effect (WIG) vehicle. The seaglider operates in three modes: floating, ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Wylie Overstreet says, "is to build one." So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets' orbits and then filming a ...