Joe Sommer built a toy, mechanized version of a historic vehicle. He describes the original: Simms’ Armoured Quadricycle, built in 1899, is considered by many to be the first armored fighting vehicle (AFV). It was the first motor vehicle designed as a weapons carrier, and had a tiny front armor shield. Frederick Simms‘ invention carried […]
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The First Lady of Miniature CSI
Frances Glessner Lee, the giant astride the world of miniature crime scenes, died nearly 50 years ago. Lee built a collection of what she called “nutshell studies“, each a tiny, high-precision recreation of a room in which a murder had been committed. Each featured a little victim, in or on whom the wee murder weapon was embedded […]