Gregory Kelly, who creates scale models of attractions out of scraps, spins a ferris wheel he made at Kelly’s Hobby Shop in Old Town Tustin on March 24, 2014. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
An Orange County hobbyist re-creates landmarks in miniature.
Kelly is building a scale-model staircase from the Laurel and Hardy classic “The Music Box.” (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
The 9-foot staircase is a re-creation of an outdoor staircase in Silver Lake where Laurel and Hardy carried a piano. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Gregory Kelly, right, talks to his mother Mary Kelly, 87, in Kelly’s Hobby Shop in Old Town Tustin. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Gregory Kelly examines a piece of balsa wood. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Detail of the Watts Towers model made by Gregory Kelly. The model won first place at the O.C. Fair last year. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
