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Check out these handmade airplane models

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  1. toggie

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    I didn't catch it the first time, and I must say I'm very impressed! Wow!
     
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    I still love seeing this level of craftsmanship, though. Staggering attention to detail.

    LOVE IT!

    CW
     
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    +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,
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    I don't think that is so great. Missed a 3/16" rivet on the inside of the engine mount.
     
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    :D

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

    Garnet - Thanks for the link.

    Cheers,
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    Totally kidding on that one. Magnificent work.
     
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    wow! Detailed .50's, ammo belts, the whole nine yards!





    :)
     
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    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.
     
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    Hence the historical reference for "the whole nine yards"?

    CW
     
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    Found a few pictures on the web of P-51 ammo belts.

    I assume the red tipped rounds are tracer bullets.
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    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


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    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.
     
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    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.
     
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    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!
     
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