Miniature Toy – Moscow For Sale

Miniature toy collectors around the world better start saving money as this 400sq meter model is for sale at a precious 3 million dollars!

Minature toy model maker Efim Deshalyt ordered this model of Moscow to be made in 1976 and it is one of the biggest models in the world and it is part of an exhibition that opened in 1977. Wow it only took a year to build! And they said a city couldn’t be built in a day!

The exhibition of the miniature toy is in Russia, but it looks like the Russians are going to sell it due to low numbers of visitors and the high running costs. It uses too much electricity apparently! The lights go on and off according to the time of day!

See more on this story here.

If they want to sell it maybe they should put a little for sale sign at the front of each building and get a small real estate agent to sell this incredible miniature toy.

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Matchstick Art

Matchstick art is an incredible passion not only because exact replicas of virtually any subject can be made, but mainly because of the sheer time it takes.

Matchstick art is considered a unique painstaking art and it is. Large models require many weeks of work often months or years and can take over not only your whole life, but for some the whole house as well.

One of those talented matchstick artists is Phil Geller. It is reported that he has always been involved in model building and has now tried the matchstick art as well with incredible results as you can see from the photo.

What makes this an even more compelling story is that he is a WWII veteran who flew B-24 bombers in the service has kept over the years. And five years ago, he built a model plane out of matchsticks.

And with that, a new passion was born. After building the German fighter plane used in World War I by pilots such as the Red Baron in four days, Geller was hooked to the craft of building things out of matchsticks.





Mr. Geller is an incredible 81 and can still make such incredible matchstick art.

He considers it “good therapy” and it allows him to have a hobby but still be at home with his wife!

The German model plane Geller built using 1,050 matchsticks is the one the veteran holds close to his heart due to his past as an airman.

After the model plane, Geller built a model Taj Mahal using nearly 7,000 microbeams, a Mississippi steam boat, for which he used over 5,000 microbeams, and the Eiffel Tower, for which he used more than 6,000 microbeams. Of all of his matchstick creations, Geller considers the Taj Mahal his masterpiece.

For the full story about Mr Geller and his works of art please click here on Matchstick Art.

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