The detail on this thing is just insane. The amount of time and effort put in is comparable to what it takes to build an actual aircraft.
[UPDATE] Just to clarify: building an actual jetliner is obviously orders of magnitude harder than building this model. But I think building this model is probably comparable to building a light aircraft like this one: https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-14/
Penn and Teller’s Fool Us had a couple of contestants per year that did a trick the hardest way possible. A couple times they gave the person the prize even though they knew how it was done. Like the people who “shuffled” an entire deck into a specific order, and/or used precise cuts rather than using marked cards or swapping the deck.
There have been a couple people they’ve had back three times even if they knew how they did it, because they’re just so good.
Yeah or the guy who can pour a whole deck of cards onto the table and grab the right card out of the air. It's not a trick, he's just insanely practised at it.
To be clear: if they absolutely know how the magician did it, they do NOT award the prize.
They do award the prize if they know there's more than one way the person could have done it, but they cannot tell for sure which one was it.
And they make it clear their show is not about the prize anyway, it's about the wonder of watching cool magic acts. The prize is a gimmick (but still, it's always fair and never staged).
They always celebrate good magic, regardless of whether they can figure it out or not.
I remember seeing this when it was first making the rounds (though I thought it was earlier than ‘14, but that’s what all the press links date to). Incredible.
At first I was confused by this "Made from Manila folders" which I didn’t know; I thought these folders were some kind of information from something that happened in Manila, and that the author did the scale model based on what he had found in them
This is wonderful. The loving dedication to getting the details right reminds me of the engineer hobbyist that built a functional scale model of a Ferrari 312PB race car as shown on this classic Top Gear episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUMDY01uUA
There's obviously a high level of skill involved...
However, if you want to experince the late 80's, change the playback speed of the landing gear video to 0.75 :D
I'm assuming the guy doesn't have kids or cats, I can't even make a cup of coffee most days without one being in the way!
I used to love to make things when I was younger but I was never this dedicated. I stopped at radio controlled models.
I'm glad my mum bought me a TI99/4A when I was a a kid, so my hobby turned into my career.
For something vaguely similar, as in a meticulous way of making a 3D object out of 2D materials with fine details, I recommend the Metal Earth products (puzzles?) as I find them to be quite rewarding. The complexity is probably two orders of magnitude less--think 10-20 hours to assemble the pre-designed and cut pieces.
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[UPDATE] Just to clarify: building an actual jetliner is obviously orders of magnitude harder than building this model. But I think building this model is probably comparable to building a light aircraft like this one: https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-14/
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Sometimes you can make something appear magical by spending far more time on the effect than anyone would ever think to do.
Stunning work. I admire and envy the focus.
Penn and Teller’s Fool Us had a couple of contestants per year that did a trick the hardest way possible. A couple times they gave the person the prize even though they knew how it was done. Like the people who “shuffled” an entire deck into a specific order, and/or used precise cuts rather than using marked cards or swapping the deck.
There have been a couple people they’ve had back three times even if they knew how they did it, because they’re just so good.
This is as good a definition of stage magic as anything, I suspect.
They do award the prize if they know there's more than one way the person could have done it, but they cannot tell for sure which one was it.
And they make it clear their show is not about the prize anyway, it's about the wonder of watching cool magic acts. The prize is a gimmick (but still, it's always fair and never staged).
They always celebrate good magic, regardless of whether they can figure it out or not.
I remember seeing this when it was first making the rounds (though I thought it was earlier than ‘14, but that’s what all the press links date to). Incredible.
They were stored in "file cabinets", which can be still seen in Windows .cab file icons.
I'm assuming the guy doesn't have kids or cats, I can't even make a cup of coffee most days without one being in the way!
I used to love to make things when I was younger but I was never this dedicated. I stopped at radio controlled models. I'm glad my mum bought me a TI99/4A when I was a a kid, so my hobby turned into my career.