Miniature Marvels
Foot soldiers march across the fields. On the hill behind the farmhouse, a hundred others advance toward the fighting. Meanwhile, the cavalry gallops in.
But this scene is not on a battlefield. It is in a museum. It was made by skilled model makers. They took great care to get the scene just right. They read maps and army reports of the battle, as well as diaries written by the soldiers and officers who were there. For instance, one soldier wrote that he had lost his boots near the farm. So the model makers made a tiny pair of boots and put them in the farmyard.
Not all model makers work for museums. Some are architects. Architects make models of the full-sized buildings they design. These models, like the ones in the museum, are true to scale. For example, if a model of a building is made in a 1/10 scale, every wall and window in the full-sized building is exactly 10 times bigger than that same wall or window in the model. Even the bricks and doorknobs are true to scale.
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