scratch-built

• “The transceiver had been scratch-built using components obtained from a variety of sources, and designed with a single task in mind.”

  Simon & Schuster: Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony

• “Mr. Harder, who is an audio engineer, and Mr. Baldwin have developed a side avocation of teaching fellow New Yorkers to build and fly these "scratch-built" airplanes, contraptions they call "flying towels" or "paper airplanes on steroids.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Paper Airplanes on Steroids

• “Messrs. Baldwin and Harder have built 35 or so "flying towels" and act as scratch-built evangelists, teaching others how to build and fly the planes at three-hour free sessions at the Brooklyn Aerodrome.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Recycling Takes to Air

• “Miss Monster has sculpted these scratch-built steampunk animal skulls that blow me away.”

  Boing Boing

• “A scratch-built crew from the 29th Group was downed on May 5, and met horrid ends.”

  Simon & Schuster: Whirlwind

• “The plan is to cut the thing out of cardboard, reinforced with wire and coated with a layer of epoxy resin to stiffen it, with straps cannibalized from two women's watches to secure it; the round thing will probably be scratch-built with added blinkies.”

  Barbarella costume construction slowly beginning

• “This 13-foot scratch-built beauty features a carbon-fiber fuselage that houses four flight computers, four parachutes that will be deployed by compressed carbon dioxide canisters, and four solid-fuel motors that pack more thrust than a cruise missile.”

  Wired: Pyro Geek Hobbyists Experiment With Homebrew Rockets

• “My brother-in-law, Tony Harwood is a keen modeller and has scratch-built numerous steampunk models and his site is definitely worth taking a look at.”

  Steampunk

• “Above is a scratch-built arthropod-based vehicle from Dinotopia: The World Beneath.”

  Walking Vehicles, Part 1

• “Model builder Glenn Ludgate of Australia has built several scratch-built one-of-a-kind Dinotopia vehicles as hobby projects.”

  Walking Vehicles, part 2.

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