Check out these handmade airplane models

Definitely cool and amazing work, but a repost from 2009 .
http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=266618
Worth reposting though as not that many might have seen it.

 

I didn't catch it the first time, and I must say I'm very impressed! Wow!

 

very kool
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I still love seeing this level of craftsmanship, though. Staggering attention to detail.

LOVE IT!

CW

 

+1 Great stuff.

Does anyone know if these guys have the "original" engineering drawings to work from? [I guess they must do - Otherwise "how'd they do that?!"]

Cheers,
Ian

 

oh ya, there are dozens of sources, in particular from the modeling crowd, and military stuff and aircraft in particular
http://www.the-blueprints.com/blueprints/ww2planes/
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I don't think that is so great. Missed a 3/16" rivet on the inside of the engine mount.

 

In model railroading land they're called "rivet counters". Drive most (but not all!) folk crazy.....

Garnet - Thanks for the link.

Cheers,
Ian

 

Totally kidding on that one. Magnificent work.

 

wow! Detailed .50's, ammo belts, the whole nine yards!

 

The links in an ammo belt were blackened steel and separated when the string was fired. If you were under a fighter when all six were fired, you could be rained on by a stream of links and brass. An entire string was 27 feet long...nine yards.

 

Hence the historical reference for "the whole nine yards"?

CW

 

There is a company in Michigan that also makes models like this. I think the builder is from Argentina. They also made a Bugatti Royale in 1/8th scale and several other large car models.


http://www.fineartmodels.com/fineartmodels.com/Aircraft.html


Tom Tanner/Ferrari Expo 2012-Chicago March 17th 2012

 

If I remember right, every 5th round was a tracer. I saw a preview of the Tuskegee Airmen and the same old Hollywood " ratta-tat-tat" sound was dubbed in to the firing of the cal.50's. When all six or eight of those things went off it was a loud growling BURR-UP. If you were close enough you could feel the muzzle blast from 200 yards away.

 

My understaning of that term was refering to a load of concrete. Or what some refer to as a "cement mixer". I was a laborer who screeded concrete in a former life.

 

Wow, what amazing work! Truly astounding.

Interesting that you say the reference comes from the civil world. I've also heard the fighter plane origin to the term.

Regardless, very cool!