Tyler Fever, a YouTuber, dedicated three years to gutting a 2021 Tesla Model 3 and transplanting its drivetrain into a ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Some toys are timeless. Favorites like water guns, scooters, and the Etch-a-Sketch continue to shape generations of children and their ...

Simon Evans uses balsa wood and clay for the main structures of his models A man spent almost 900 hours building and painting a scale model of a medieval crooked house that survives in a picturesque ...

For a century now, a childhood favorite has been quietly taking flight from Wakefield. Guillow's delivers aviation joy via balsa wood airplanes — those featherweight gliders that people have been ...

Joe Macken's stunning new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York called "He Built This City" depicts more than 890,000 structures — parks, businesses, apartments and homes, factories, and more ...

Two of the author’s students work on a prototype. When students launch their first rocket during our school’s flight and design elective, the results are rarely graceful. Some rockets spiral sideways, ...

Career Path to Date: In a career spanning over three decades, I spent several years in financial services, including at Old Mutual and Liberty Holdings, and later served as CEO of STANLIB Asset ...

A visitor at He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model (photo Filip Wolak, courtesy the Museum of the City of New York) On a Sunday evening last summer, Joe Macken revealed to his daughter that he’d made ...

Over the course of two decades, Queens resident Joe Macken meticulously built an entire city from the ground up. In fact, he built New York City—the whole thing—one building, house, and bridge at a ...

Review: 2-in-1 RC smart-plane will put your engineering skills to the test By Bronwyn Thompson April 09, 2026 The hand-designed, laser-cut balsa plane uses PowerUp's 4.0 system to fly the model from ...

In 2004, truck driver Joe Macken created a miniature replica of New York City’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza out of balsa wood. Although he had intended to stop there, he realized he was hooked. “Then the ...