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Junior Sowards shows off a couple of years' worth of hobby projects. Sowards makes toy-size heavy machinery out of scavenged wood.
AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Lawrence Pierce
A lot of time and effort goes into each model. Everything is painted and detailed by hand, Nov. 21, 2012.
AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Lawrence Pierce
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.
AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Lawrence Pierce
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.
AP Photo/The Charleston Gazette, Lawrence Pierce
Junior Sowards is working on a military jeep, based on his own plans, Nov. 21, 2012.