Movie Miniatures

Ridley Scott's Alien took 1979 by storm and was followed by three additional films in what is known as the Alien Quadrilogy , with the a...

Several episodes of the early 90s Discovery Channel behind-the-scenes series Movie Magic have been posted on YouTube. A number of these epis...

Martin Bower is a well-known name in film miniature circles, with a hand in building some of the most iconic miniatures from popular sci-fi ...

The magic of special effects is what drove the creation of this blog, but it's seldom updated and focuses on only one aspect of the spec...

An earlier post on the independent film Moon referenced the filmmaker's take on the miniature work. Many more photos can be found at th...

The development blog for Machine , a short film with computer-generated characters in a miniature environment, has lots of detail on the pro...

A boat design Web site has some fantastic treats hidden away for your amusement - some incredible photos of miniature ships created for the ...

In my continuing series on DVD special features with miniature content, we're taking a look at Peter Jackson's King Kong. With the ...

Moon is an independent film about a lone engineer on a lunar mining station who learns that things are not as they seem as the end of his t...

While not showing much detail of the actual miniature, this time-lapse video of the construction of the massive hospital miniature for the m...

As a followup to the previous post regarding the use of a miniature helicopter, take a look at these two YouTube clips. The first features a...

Stu Maschwitz has some serious special effects chops. After four years at ILM, he helped to start The Orphanage, an acclaimed effects house....

A Leonardo DiCaprio fan site, of all places, lands an interview about the miniatures of Shutter Island. Nice detail and some good pictures. ...

If, like me, your childhood was filled with the adventures of Kirk and Spock in Star Trek's syndication, you'll appreciate this coll...

For a documentary on James Eads, an American engineer, a miniature diving bell was constructed. This section on the PBS Web site talks about...

While not specifically film-related, I had a great time following the progress of the construction of this 1:6.5 scale Russian Su-27 fighter...

If science-fiction is your thing, you won't want to miss The Model Builder's Reference Vault for information on some of the miniatur...

Here's a collection of photos from projects undertaken by Atlantis SFX, apparently somewhere in Germany. Various buildings, vehicles and...

Over at TheSign Digital Pictures Entertainment, they have a small gallery of their work that's worth looking at. Mostly sci-fi themed, a...

In this Digital Content Producer article from 1998, several practitioners of old-school special effects are interviewed about their craft, i...

I was disappointed in Martin Scorsese's "The Aviator" as a film. I felt that it was bloated and uninteresting as a whole. Howe...

While not specifically miniatures made for film use, these large-scale ships that graced the pages of Modern Mechanix magazine from 1938 sho...

Here's a look behind the scenes at the model shop that produced the models for the first Starship Troopers movie. A good selection of ph...

If you're interested in scratchbuilt Star Wars models and can't wait for the book mentioned below, check out Lasse Henning's si...

Well, well, well! Two hundred and sixteen pages of Star Wars model goodness, lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photographs. Looks like t...

I finally took the time to get some video captures of the miniatures used in Coronado (mentioned in a previous post). Again, lots of attent...