SMALL WONDERS

‘We combine rapid prototyping techniques with artisanal skills, but like a good designer who’s able to sketch as well as use 3D modeling programs, it helps to know how things were done before the technology became available.’
—Giuseppe Capobianco

here’s something about a scale model that brings out the child in grown men, especially men old enough to remember simpler times when every boy went through a model-making phase. As a 9-year-old, my own bedroom was festooned with Airfix models of wartime planes suspended from the ceiling by lengths of fishing line. My favorite was a Spitfire Mk V with camouflaged topsides and an eggshell blue underbelly chasing down a yellow-nosed Messerschmitt 109.