Now this is a hot car. Well, a potentially hot one. Artist Patrick Acton has created a replica of the 1970 Dodge Charger from “The Fast and the Furious” out of matchsticks. The Iowan runs the ...
GLADBROOK, Iowa — The Matchstick Marvels museum is known for Pat Acton`s incredibly detailed models made of matches. Now the matchstick artist is out with a new one, with some really incredible detail ...
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 ...
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We can’t stress this enough: Alexander Perfiliev is the unrecognized monarch of miniature model makers and DIY nutcases alike. The elderly Russian has been plying his talents for decades now, and the ...
Being imprisoned in a foreign country did not stop a man from paying a creative love tribute to his wife. Albert Pascal Shaine built a Taj Mahal model using matchsticks as a New Year gift for his ...
Michelangelo spent only three years carving David. Da Vinci’s depiction of The Last Supper required just three. This giant model of the Rila Monastery by Bulgarian artist Plamen Ignatov demanded 16 ...