Star Wars Modelmaker Offers Tips for Tiny Table Saw

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Realistic scale models—as well as tabletop boxes and other small projects—require delicate, tiny, clean cuts. The Proxxon Table Saw FKS/E ($360, proxxon.com) shrinks features we expect in a full-size table saw into a Lilliputian cutter, allowing users to dial in small-scale projects with precision. But don’t make your models look too perfect, advises modelmaker Grant McCune, who won an Oscar for Star Wars. A little inspired sloppiness—oil stains, stray parts—can bolster the illusion of reality. “The marks don’t have to have rhyme or reason,” McCune says. “The Millennium Falcon probably had 15 pounds of parts from model tank and bridge kits.”

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