The Daily Yonder profiles artist Pat Acton, who has been making "Matchstick Marvels" from his home in Gladbrook, Iowa, for nearly five decades.

Richard Plaud was saddened and then overjoyed when Guinness World Records said his matchstick model had been disqualified, only to award him the record days later.

How to Build Pirate Ship from Matches Without Glue In this video I show you how to build pirate ship matchstick model. For this project you need 89 match cubes, so this is creative crafting project ...

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.

He says that if he would have known when he started this nearly 50 years ago that he’d be making, for example, the largest matchstick model in the world, a matchstick train that measures 22 feet long, ...

Richard Plaud spent 8 years building an Eiffel Tower out of matchsticks. Guinness World Records disqualified him at first, but then reversed the ruling.

Patrick was inspired to start creating his matchstick models after watching a TV news report about a man who made a farmstead from ordinary wooden matchsticks. He never forgot this story and after ...

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.