These are the fascinating pictures of miniature table sculptures molded around bonsai trees that take up to a painstaking 18 months to create. Japanese illustrator Takanori Aiba, 58, has built the intriguing scale models of windmills, lighthouses and even the Michelin Man.He delicately uses craft paper, plaster, acrylic resin, paint and plastic to create the host of sprawling miniature communities that wrap around the tiny trees.Following his work as an illustrator for Japanese fashion magazine POPYE he has spent the last nine years producing the detailed mini worlds.The creations take at least three months to construct with his Ice Cream Package Tower taking an astonishing 18 months work. Since 2003, he has made eight models, with 10 more planned over the next few years.
Pint- size Maci Winters only has one wish this Christmas - to be as tall as the other boys and girls on the school playground .
An intrepid explorer hopes to be reunited with his travel partner, after his cuddly toy companion was stolen .
A reformed boozer, who spent nine months partying in Magaluf, has shed over 6 stone after ditching her ladette lifestyle to become a fitness fanatic .
Diners on this aeroplane are never disappointed with their meal, because the decommissioned aircraft is now home to an air-mazing McDonald’s restaurant .
A terrified moose, trapped in a frozen lake, bobs her head above the icey water and awaits her rescue .
A woman who left a fellow nightclubber needing plastic surgery after savagely biting her on the hand because she was hungry, has been spared prison .
A coroner stunned an inquest into a honeymooner who died abroad today by asking her husband if he was involved in her drugs death .
STRETCHING his little legs in the air, a smiley leaf-tailed gecko breaks free from his old, scaly skin .
LIFTING their heads high and bumping beaks, these aggressive pelicans clash over fish .
A BLIND man was battered with a brick in a sickening attack by two thugs .
A tiny puppy who lost his front legs after being hit by a train has been given and new LEASH of life with a set of wheels .
A carefree bear cub reclines in the water with his feet raised in the air .