Scale Models Quotes

When I was a kid, one of my hobbies was as model-maker.

I've always been into toys and kits and models. I'm kind of a toy nerd.

I adore physical miniatures and try to use them as much as I can and have a bit of a fetish about that.

While studying art and design at Central Saint Martins, I went round supermarkets taking photos of shoppers and their baskets: the game was to match people with their food. For an architectural project, I made a scale model of a shop out of gingerbread rather than foam and added icing and sweets very colourfully.

There was a 3-foot-long model that was built for 'New Hope,' and then there was an 8-foot model that was built for 'Empire Strikes Back.' The 8-foot model and the 3-foot model are kind of different. A lot of the details are different between the two of them.

About 10 years ago, in an effort to gain a better grasp on McCone's world, I took up the hobby of building fully electrified scale models: first of the legal cooperative where she started out, and then of her own brown-shingled cottage, a pursuit that the more tactful of my friends label unusual, and that the more blunt refer to as obsessive.

Well, the Empire State was about 40' high in the studio. King Kong was a little model about 2' high, and the scenery that he worked in was in proportion to his size.

As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

When you're dealing with clay animation, people forget that every single set is built to scale and by hand.

It's not a model if it's full-scale, Tomkinson, it's an icebreaker.