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What started just as a sort of memory project has become a virtual time-traveller for Michael Paul Smith and visitors to his miniature model town of Elgin Park, Pennysylvania.
This perfect miniature world, one that took him 25 years to make, contains his vast collection of 1/24 scale model cars and homemade buildings.
The project involved making use of spare and lot of his professional time as well.
Smith’s version of a mid-20th century American town is like a collection of old photographs. His model-making skills are the accumulation of numerous jobs he has had including: textbook illustrator, wallpaper hanger, house painter, and architectural model maker.
In order to prove to doubters that he has not doctored the photographs, you can find him photobombing his creations or even a stray thumb next to one of the cars.
The die-cast vehicles he has used are amazing replicas of the real cars and trucks. The wheels steer from the steering wheel, the shock absorbers work, the doors, hood and trunk open, the front seats fold forward, there are removable spare tires and the list goes on. One of his die-casts has a real cloth convertible roof that folds down and another has roll down windows. And these models are only three inches tall! The colours are actual paint colours from those eras and the tire treads are accurate for each decade.
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