{"id":124958,"date":"2025-11-06T12:31:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124958\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T12:31:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T12:31:12","slug":"world-record-holder-makes-tiny-sailor-moon-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/124958\/","title":{"rendered":"World record holder makes tiny Sailor Moon sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The micro artist from Bournemouth has created a sculpture of Sailor Moon so small it fits inside the eye of a needle.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  David A Lindon, who holds multiple Guinness World Records for his miniature work, has produced the piece to mark 70 years of Kodansha\u2019s Nakayoshi magazine, where the character was originally serialised in Japan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Measuring 1.31mm by 2.14mm, the sculpture depicts Sailor Moon, also known as Usagi Tsukino, who transforms from a schoolgirl to a warrior driven by love and justice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The character is widely recognised for her influence on anime and pop culture.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  David said it took two months to complete the piece using microscopic hand tools including chisels, tweezers, paintbrushes and drills.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: \u201cI worked like a zombie slowing down my heart so much that it will take months to recover.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cEach evening I sat all through the night like an owl perched in front of my Nikon microscope.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The micro artist from Bournemouth has created a sculpture of Sailor Moon so small it fits inside the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-124958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}