Richard Plaud labored 4,200 hours over eight years to painstakingly transform more than 700,000 matchsticks into a 23½-foot-tall model of the Eiffel Tower, driven by a goal he had held since he was a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Richard Plaud's hopes of securing the world record for the matchstick model have been rejected on a technicality A French council ...

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. A Frenchman spent eight years building a giant matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower, and he may have used the wrong matchsticks to set a world record. Richard Plaud ...

A French man spent eight years building his dream of being a world record holder stick by stick, only to have judges disqualify him for using the wrong materials for the tallest matchstick sculpture ...

LONDON — You could say Richard Plaud's dreams of making the world's tallest matchstick sculpture may have gone up in smoke. The Frenchman spent the last eight years painstakingly piecing together ...

Explore the fascinating process of building a detailed matchstick truck from scratch. Follow each step from sketching the outline, constructing hollow cubes for the chassis, to assembling wheels and ...

GLADBROOK, Iowa (AP) -- We could start anywhere, but the USS Iowa, just inside the front door of the Gladbrook museum, is as good as any. It took Pat Acton 800 hours and 137,000 wooden matchsticks -- ...

A Frenchman spent eight years building the giant model, but officials at the Guinness World Records says he didn't use "commercially available" matches. Guinness tells NBC News it may reconsider. Good ...