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Wooden toy maker

By Edecio Martinez

January 2, 2013 / 9:48 AM EST / CBS News

AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Lawrence Pierce

Junior Sowards shows off a couple of years' worth of hobby projects. Sowards makes toy-size heavy machinery out of scavenged wood.

A lot of time and effort goes into each model. Everything is painted and detailed by hand, Nov. 21, 2012.

Junior Sowards built a special diesel shovel model for his wife, Linda, and created a figure, meant to represent her, in the driver's seat, Nov. 21, 2012.

Among his projects, Junior Sowards dabbles with building model aircrafts. He likes to build them but is anxious about flying them himself. His wife, Linda, thinks he worries too much, Nov. 21, 2012.

Junior Sowards is working on a military jeep, based on his own plans, Nov. 21, 2012.