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.

“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)