Model Making - Crafts

Have you ever wondered how that great big sailing ship got into that little bitty bottle? The chances are, you found out as soon as you were old enough to ask the question—and smart enough to ask someone who knew. Ships in bottles, and miniature planes that really fly, and yachts that sail, and workable scale model cars all come under the heading of model-making, an all-time favorite of "production" hobbyists.

Model-making can be almost all things to all hobbyists, because so many things can be modeled, and in so many different ways. The ambitious, energetic model-maker starts with a porter's whistle and ends up with a railroad complex; the indolent, easy-going one starts out with 98 cents and a pot of cement and winds up, an hour or two and no effort later, with a perfectly creditable representation of a B-58 Hustler, the newest thing in supersonic airplanes.

As with so many other hobbies, model-making overlaps into several other fields, allowing one person the luxury of several hobbies or allowing an entire family to join in the enjoyment of their hobbies: Dad enjoys woodwork, builds a dollhouse; Junior Miss collects dolls and moves tenants into the house; mother makes doll clothes; Junior Mister makes tiny furniture, patrolling airplanes, and collects miniature cars.

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