martin_g wrote:A couple of pics of microbeam (matchstick) models I have built.
A Chinese Dragon boat and Windmill.
Quite enjoyed them.
Paul wrote:Hi Stan,
I did a very basic boat one as a kid, so I understood your original post - Heck in those days a lot of (PVA glue I think ?) rather than!!!
From memory, they were quite difficult to do to align all the matchsticks correctly - but that was too many years ago to think about !![]()
maximus2012 wrote:I went to a modelboat show in Swansey (Wales) many years ago and there was lad with hundreds of ship models made out of match sticks to the scale of I think 1/1200 the where magnificent. I sometimes use matchsticks to beef up my card models or use them for mast`s and spar`s. The are very useful, I think you can buy a big bag of them 1000 or so in there for a few quid.
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