Can you imagine spending all day building model cars, five days a week, and gettingpaidfor it? That was an idle fantasy of mine as a youth. But that's exactly what Warren Riggs does for a living.

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 ...

In our community we’re no strangers to making things, and there are plenty among us who devote their efforts to modelmaking. It’s uncommon, though, for a scale model of something to be made using the ...