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.

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

Sowards is working on a military jeep, based on his own plans.

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