modelmaker

Noun

1. One who builds models, especially scale models.
   • His father was a locally renowned modelmaker whose model cars and airplanes were on display in his barbershop for many years.
   • But if modelmaking is not art, why is it that, in the upper reaches of modeldom, where the best do their work, there is an identifiable difference in "feel" between the work of one modelmaker and another? - 1990, The...

   Synonyms: scale modeler modeler

   Hypernyms: hobbyist enthusiast aficionado person

   1. One who does so avocationally as a hobby.

   2. (dated) One who does so vocationally in industry.

      • Near-synonym: scale modeler
      • His grandfather was a modelmaker for a heavy engineering firm.

      Synonyms: scale modeler

      Hypernyms: maker tradesman tradesperson worker person

      Coordinate Terms: prototyper patternmaker toolmaker diemaker mouldmaker