Ms. Weibel, a six-foot model with long red hair, and her 29-pound cat with red fur won the owner-cat look-alike competition.

Modern versions of monumental worker murals serve as backdrops for six-foot wooden models of staplers, soda fountains and 1920's telephones.

The six-foot model was used whenever a saucer separation sequence needed to be filmed, and it was then updated by ILM for use in Star Trek Generations.

Meanwhile, a larger, six-foot (1.8 m) model, equipped with gas-powered rocket jets to simulate propulsion and a high-powered light for the Photon Drive, appeared in close-up shots.

A five- or six-foot model lets you reach most ceilings safely; anything taller will be too cumbersome.

A group of gorgeous six-foot models sits nearby, passing a telephone around the table.

In reality, Cloudbase was a six-foot model designed by Derek Meddings and filmed by his special effects unit, in front of a painted sky backdrop.

"The Merry Wanderer," one of the most popular Hummels, has a couple of dozen variations, including a six-foot model outside the Goebel factory.

This is not an easy theory to explain in a noisy club, particularly when a six-foot model in a halter top is dancing five feet away.

Ola Solomatina, 22, a six-foot model with short black hair and blue eyes who was at Studio 54, said that there was an appeal to being around worldly, older men.