John Long lives in Springfield, Missouri, with his wife and a son who’s in college. He started modeling figures seriously around 1995, and has so far done three dioramas set in cigar boxes.

Securing the Engineering Deck (2024)

Photo by Penny Meyer

“Like A Giant Oak Tree” (2022, 54mm; photo by Bob Sarnowski)

Meanwhile, Up the Street
(54mm, 2014)
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Gumshoe
(54mm)

Wyatt Earp
(54mm)