The phrase "a makeshift model" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a temporary or improvised version of something, often created quickly to serve a specific purpose.
Example: "Due to time constraints, we had to present a makeshift model of our design at the meeting."
Alternatives: "a temporary model" or "an improvised model".
Even though the makeshift model is a whopping five times the size of an adult zebrafish (several shown in background at right), both single zebrafish and groups preferred mingling with the robot to spending time elsewhere in the tank, the researchers report online today in Bioinspiration & Biomimetics.
It is merely a makeshift move to avoid a dispute".
Internal neon lights provided lighting, and detail was painted on by using the second Death Star model's exposed framework as a makeshift frisket.
Or the fact that at a 2011 Thom Browne fashion show, in the Edna Barnes Salomon Room, there were models kneeling before a makeshift altar as Gregorian chants blared?
Back in Brooklyn, in front of the Rivera Food Center on Fifth Avenue, images of ballplayers flickered from a projector TV set and onto a makeshift screen taped to a late-model car.
We met in a clothing store with a makeshift runway, where she'd been casting models for an upcoming charity event, and then took a car to the auction house.
A mood board sat above a makeshift office desk, plastered with pictures of models in his typically elongated garments.
He went through a door with his name taped to the front, into a makeshift dressing room,and introduced an Abercrombie & Fitch model named Katie Rost, his date.
The models shuffle their bony bodies over to a makeshift line and OF COURSE half of them can't remember their numbers.
Last week, in his latest show of bravado, Steve Aoki sent models on skateboards down a runway and into a makeshift skate park he built in a studio in Lower Manhattan.
