Category Archives: models

Disposable Technology

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Joel Johnson

Philip Isohe’s detailed airplane models from rubbish

Posted on September 18, 2008 by Joel Johnson

AfriGadget profiles Philip Isohe, a talented maker who creates detailed, working (but not flyable) model airplanes out of scrap.

Wonderful gallery of tiny steam-powered model engines

Posted on April 24, 2008 by John Brownlee

Straight from the show floor of the North American Model Engineering Expo held in Toledo last weekend, Ross in Detroit posted this incredible gallery of homunculus-sized steam, gas and hot-air model engines in our comments. There’s some breath-taking ingenuity on … Continue reading →

Estes Digital Video Rocket

Posted on August 31, 2007 by Joel Johnson

Junk catalog Hammacher Schlemmer occasionally gets a winner—this new “Digital Video Rocket” by Estes may be one. While the capability isn’t as good as one would hope—only 12 seconds of video or three VGA-quality pictures—it sounds like a lot of … Continue reading →