During the construction of the International Space Station (ISS), material selection was critical given the extreme environment of space. Chances are that one of those materials up for consideration ...

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Neat post on Make, reporting from the NYC Toy Fair, about these amazing models available for purchase. Using small wooden dowels (just like classic matchsticks), you too can build a locomotive, or the ...

For more than 30 years, Mickey Donaghy has been Omagh's Matchstick Man and there are no signs of him slowing down. It is a painstaking, precise and very fiddly hobby, but Mickey fell in love with ...

In this video I show you how to build pirate ship matchstick model. For this project you need 89 match cubes, so this is ...

A retired British oil rig worker has completed an epic 10-year project to create a 'matchstick armada'. David Reynolds, 51, from Southampton, spent more than 10,000 hours gluing 250,000 matches to ...

It all started when vocational counselor Patrick Acton glued two wooden matchsticks together in the basement of his Gladbrook, Iowa, home. Some four decades and nearly 6 million matchsticks later, ...

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It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...

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 ...

For more than 30 years, Mickey Donaghy has been Omagh's Matchstick Man and there are no signs of him slowing down. It is a painstaking, precise and very fiddly hobby, but Mickey fell in love with ...