Amazing Replicas Made of Matchsticks

Artist: Patrick Acton

Patrick Acton took three years to make this awesome “Minas Tirith. City of kings.” He putting this together, using 24,000 small wooden blocks to form Mount Mindolluin, and to comprise the White City itself, about 420,000 matchsticks.

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A series of larger photographs of the model may be found here.

He also made a replica of Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series — upon which this design, for the film series, was based.

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It has been sold to an attraction in Spain called “The HOUSE OF KATMANDU”. By the time the final building (the Clock Tower buidling) was finished it had taken Acton nearly three years to build, and it contains over a 602,000 matchsticks held together with 15 gallons of carpenter’s wood glue. .

Artist: Michael Williams

Michael Williams spent 10 years designing and building a famous London landmark out of matchsticks.

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He crafted the model out of 1.6 million matchsticks.

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The replica has two household bulbs lighting up the two towers and an illuminated 52 gun galleon underneath. It is lit up with long-life LED bulbs which last for 100,000 hours.

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Artist: David Reynolds

David Reynolds spent more than 10,000 hours gluing over 250,000 matches to form hundreds of his matchstick ships model.

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He has created 20 legendary vessels such as Titanic, Queen Mary, HMS Victory etc

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One of his work, a model of a North Sea oil platform was officially recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's biggest matchstick model.

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It is made up of more than four million matches, weighs half a ton and took 15 years to build.

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He invested £5,000 on glue and matchsticks for this project @__@!!

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The model was so massive that it could not be assembled in one piece at Reynold's home. It had to be split into 14 different sections and finally assembled into one piece at the Bursledon Brickworks Museum in Southampton