Building Scale Models

Building Scale Models has always been fascinating for me. As a kid I grew up with 5 brothers who were car mad and we used to go and watch the motor racing all the time, so it seems normal that I started building scale model cars to begin with.

Building scale models takes a lot of time and love and over the years I have made lots of different models until I came across matchstick kits and then I realized that I could build anything I wanted to with a little imagination, but nothing comes close to what I will show you next.

David Reynolds spent over 10 hours a day for over 15 years building scale models the like of which I have never seen and it is simple amazing as you can see.

This incredible oil rig has a reported four million matches and he is going for the world record and it is over 21 feet long and 12 feet high. It really is an incredible matchstick kit.

Building scale models of this size is amazing. It takes two trucks to transport it and it is built in 14 sections. It is currently stored in a Southampton museum.

Building scale models like this normally would come with a huge cost, but this one only cost about $2,000 because David, who used to work on an oil rig, got all of his matches from a wholesaler. That’s a lot of matches!

I don’t think I will ever build something quite as big as this as I simple do not have the time to go this big, but it just shows what is possible when you set your mind to building scale models.

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Rolls Royce Used Cars

Rolls Royce Used Cars as you have never seen them before however this is not a car you can actually drive away and probably doesn’t have the value of a real one.

Rolls Royce Used cars are not build like this one. Although it took over a year to build and have moving wheels and other parts I don’t think it will ever have the collectibility of a real Rolls Royce.

When the car was first built it was called the ugly name of “40/50 h.p.” and it was produced in Manchester originally. Later production moved to Derby in about 1908.

The original “Silver Ghost” was actually a car with the registration plate AX 201. Many other cars were given names, but this one seemed to stick and in 1925 Rolls Royce launched the car as the Silver Ghost.

Well this version of a Rolls Royce Used Car is probably not worthy of the name Silver Ghost, but rather wooden ghost.

This Rolls Royce Used Car is made out of 1,016,711 matchsticks and is over 13 feet long.

And here is my model tram…

It is getting bigger now with the sides on and also the bench seating. Next I will be starting on the underside of the roof. So far I have worked on it about 35 hours and nearly 2,000 matches.

It’s pretty cool if I say so myself, but it is not a patch on the above Rolls Royce Used Car

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