The Dunedin Miniaturists Club had its annual open day at the Brockville Community Church Hall on Saturday, showing off houses, castles, and everything in them in miniature scale.
The first question has to be: "Why?""That's a good question," workshop co-ordinator Mike Ind said.
"Sometimes we ask ourselves that," he said.
"People have got a genuine interest in what they can make with any raw material."
The key was to look at an ordinary object and be able to think what it could become on a miniature scale.
Mr Ind's model was of a market in Thailand, the inspiration for which was a recent trip to the country.
New Zealand miniaturists, who had a 25-year-old national association, had to be more creative than those of Mr Ind's former homeland, the United Kingdom, as there was not the ability to buy ready-made miniature items in this country.
That made the hobby more fun, plus encouraged inventive creativity and clever recycling, Mr Ind said.
The quite small Dunedin club's 25 members were limited only by their imagination in what they could construct in miniature form, Mr Ind said.
