Your attention is bound to be grabbed by the sight of an artist bent over model buildings of varying architectural styles; his unwavering focus ensures his steady hand creates miniatures of all kinds — familiar-looking streetscape from Bandra’s bylanes, structures in SoBo, the neighbourhood chai stall, sights on your daily commute, and even corners of your home. Omkar Umesh Ghate’s miniature world is like the one we’re living in. The 25-year-old miniature model maker, freelances across television and advertising industries, creating miniature sets for movies, web series and commercials.

Ghate’s extremely detailed finishes on his creations are hard to miss. Note the surface textures mimicking the real deal, paper taking the form of iron fences and tiny T-shirts, not made from cloth, caught flying in the wind on the clothesline. It’s a picture-perfect world that seems all too real; you’d expect a tiny head to pop out the window of these structures, annoyed by your inquisitiveness. The detailed time-consuming models that he’s shared on Instagram took 10 to 12 days; he adds that more time yields better results. Yet, he modestly glosses over the amount of effort for each project, only revealing, “Observation and restraint are very important when making miniature models.”