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A three-dimensional representation or copy of an object that is larger or smaller than the actual size of the object, which seeks to maintain the relative proportions of the physical size of the original object

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  • A story about one man's collection of 36 working, scale-model engines
  • This 1 scale-model 1960s boys 'bedroom is scrumptiously obsessively fantastic.
  • "Death Kappa" gets its world premiere, as director Tomo'o Haraguchi reinvents the Godzilla mythos as a lo-fi valentine to scale-model destruction.
  • Back in Arizona I found a job selling scale-model cars for a small mail-order catalog, which turned out to be the perfect nurse-your-broken-heart job.
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