Djordje Balac, a 20 year old Croatian, combines his passion for vehicles and thousands of matchsticks to create incredibly accurate replicas of industrial machinery.
His passion for making wooden model started in general school, when he was cutting all the necessary parts from wood. Then he discovered that matchsticks are a better option and he then made his first complex model, a Russian GAZ 63 A truck. It was made in six months with the help of 576 boxes of matches and 6 kilograms of glue.
After many other models built, Djordje took the whole thing to a new level, and in 2006 he started making bigger models that features movement parts, like the real vehicles. Such as an extendible auto-crane, or trucks collapsible cabin.
Nowadays, Djordje is unemployed and he looks for a job to fund his next project. “I can not find a job,” Djordje told 24Hours News. “I’d like to do something that has to do with matches. It would be nice if I could make a living doing what I love.” For example, his Liebherr LTM 11200 replica cost him about $1,360.
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