songwind was talking about school projects, his own and his daughter's: a model pizza restaurant and a straw house with a three-pigs diorama. It reminded me: I once built a toothpick model of the Trojan horse, complete with a trapdoor in the belly.
What was the neatest thing you ever made? Objects only; many of you have made nifty novels, but that's not what I'm getting at here.