Richard Plaud labored 4,200 hours over eight years to painstakingly transform more than 700,000 matchsticks into a 23½-foot-tall model of the Eiffel Tower, driven by a goal he had held since he was a ...

Pat Acton, a former career counselor in central Iowa, spent some 1,000 hours a year between 2007 and 2010 building a matchstick model of the mythic Minas Tirith city from "Lord of the Rings." The ...

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 ...

Richard Plaud's matchstick dreams have been rekindled. Earlier this week, the Frenchman was crestfallen when he was told his 23-foot model of the Eiffel Tower — made from 700,000 matchsticks over ...

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Clive Holmes spent two years building the model, which was sold at auction to a toy shop A model of York Minster made out of 80,000 matchsticks has been sold to a toy shop, with the money donated to ...

Get creative with three fun and simple DIY matchstick shooter projects in this guide from ideas corner. Learn how to build homemade matchstick guns using household items such as wooden clothespins, ...

[Valentin] is the MacGyver of model rocketry, building a small rocket out of three items many people have hanging around the house. Cat litter, matchsticks, and a ballpoint pen are the raw materials ...

Djordje Balac, a 20 year old Croatian, combines his passion for vehicles and thousands of matchsticks to create incredibly accurate replicas of industrial machinery. His passion for making wooden ...