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1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

• AtOmXpLuS 6y ago
  Everything in (https://atomxplus.com[AtOmXpLuS] https://atomxplus.com[AtOmXpLuS]
• eloff 6y ago
  The level of detail, thought, and painstaking effort behind creating this model is incredible. I imagine it was a fun or cathartic hobby for this person, but man when you think of what else they could have accomplished with a similar level of effort. They could be in a substantially better place financially, which probably would have been more valuable to them personally. If not, then by all means it is time well spent. Some people would counter that money is not everything, which I mostly agree with. But it can be traded for time, in as much as you are currently trading time for money in a hateful device called a job. And everyone knows that time is both valuable and limited. That's my opinion, I can't justify time consuming hobbies like this one. Still, it's a beautiful work of art and the creator should be justifiably proud of it.
  • dylan604 6y ago
    Wow. What a selfish perspective. It's art. It made this guy happy. It makes me happy knowing it exists and the complete write up about it. How much is that worth. I can tell you my happiness is worth more than zero. Can't speak for the artist, but willing to guess it is more than zero as well. Who are you state where this individual's time is better spent?
    • eloff 6y ago
      I have no objection to that. But it's this really what he would most want to do with his free time, or just something he did to pass the time? I would rather spend time with friends and family, play games, read books, travel, etc. I'm drawing attention to the opportunity cost inherit when you choose any one thing to spend your time on - you can't spend it on anything else, so make it something truly important to you. If that happens to be building models, so much the merrier.
      • dylan604 6y ago
        >I would rather spend time with friends and family, play games, read books, travel, etc. That's you. Lots of people are perfectly fine without the need for family/friends 24/7. The site clearly stated he had been working on the project since 2008, so they could spend a few weekends here & there on the project and still have plenty of time left for doing whatever else makes you (specific you not the royal one) approve of his endeavors. I might suggest you might have more free time yourself if you just accept things not in your control rather than worrying about how someone else does things you might choose to do differently. I'm suspecting that this is not the only example. You haven't mentioned your hobbies. Let's see if we approve of how you spend your time.
      • switchbak 6y ago
        Do you have this same criticism of the people that peruse this site? Or those watching Netflix? But reading books is ok - see how arbitrary that is? We don't all share the same values, and it's pretty arrogant of you to suggest that yours are universal.
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  • throwaway43234 6y ago
    If I spent my weekends flipping burgers instead of kayaking/backpacking/etc, I'd have more money too. But why on earth would I want to do that? This person clearly has some source of income sufficient to let them "waste" hundreds of hours, I don't think they need to be in a rush to dig up more money.
  • GekkePrutser 6y ago
    It is actually partially his work (though probably it evolved as such later), see the Singapore Airlines ad campaign from his site: https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/singapore-airlines https://www.lucaiaconistewart.com/singapore-airlines But yeah I agree, this kind of tedious repetitive work is nothing for me either. I need to do hobbies I can learn from. While this would have been incredibly educational (about aircraft design, construction, project management etc), it also contains a lot of highly repetitive work like building hundreds of the same seats. No thanks. But anyway I wanted to say that hobbies aren't aways perpendicular to jobs or making money. I've used many things I've learned from hobbies in my job, and in fact my job is pretty much my hobby. And even with unrelated hobbies you can sometimes pull them into your work (as he did here). IMO this is the ideal way to go, yet for a lot of people unfortunately not achievable in this society :( But kudos to him!! Wow, it looks amazing.
  • kayodelycaon 6y ago
    Let people have their fun. Not everything in life needs to be optimized to death. My hobbies are completely unrelated to my job but they make me a much fuller and happier person. As a side-effect, everything else is improved. If you're worried about this person's impact, think about how many people saw this and were impressed and possibly inspired? I was. We have a much different effect on the world than we realize. The things we think are important may not be and the kind word or small bit of advice we gave without a second thought may have changed someone else's life. The human experience is too complex to be measured in spreadsheets.
    • eloff 6y ago
      I disagree, what if not time is worth optimizing? It's the only thing you can't get more of. edit getting down voted by the immortal apparently...
      • jdbernard 6y ago
        But to what end and for who's benefit? What is the point of the optimization of your time?
        • eloff 6y ago
          For your own benefit mostly. If you want to spend some time for the benefit of society at large, so much the better. But at least you should care about your own benefit.
          • jdbernard 6y ago
            It just makes me think of the story of the fisherman: https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the-businessman/ https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2015/09/04/the-fisherman-and-the... Your replies seem to indicate that he should spend his time doing "productive" things instead; that would be more "optimal". I guess I'm tired of this race-to-the-bottom mentality where we spend so much time "optimizing" our productivity that we optimize the joy out of life. Productivity is a good thing, but I'm not convinced it is the greatest good.
  • paracyst 6y ago
    On today's episode of "Stop Liking Things That I Don't Like"
    • eloff 6y ago
      Not at all, just puzzled why people do things like this that don't seem to better their situation. Unless he's doing exactly what he would really want to do with his free time, in which case it is optimal.
      • jquast 6y ago
        People said the same thing for those who invented email, the World Wide Web, tcp/ip, and other technologies. Nobody saw the value in it at the time of doing it. That’s the thing about having true creative vision, to also have the conviction to do those things that nobody else sees the value of doing.
      • jimktrains2 6y ago
        I mean, why does anyone have any hobbies? Why do people build model layouts, or models at all? Why read/write for fun? Why keep small gardens? Why do photograhy? Why do people still run their own dark rooms? Why do people write software in their spare time? Why do people cook?
        • indemnity 6y ago
          This strain of thinking that every spare minute must be accounted for and be in the service of improving one’s circumstances is something all too common in tech. We’re not ants.
          • jimktrains2 6y ago
            It's also a very narrow idea of what someone's "circumstances" are. Physical and mental well-being are part of your circumstances as well, and hobbies often cater to one or both of those.
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  • DavidVoid 6y ago
    > Some people would counter that money is not everything, which I mostly agree with. But it can be traded for time Yes, it can be traded for time to spend on things you enjoy doing -- such as your hobbies.
  • thehappypm 6y ago
    Do you have any hobbies at all?
  • andalusian_ipa 6y ago
    I'm sorry you got downvoted, I agree with you. If only this serious amount of effort was directed towards something meaningful the world would be much greater.
    • bitexploder 6y ago
      This is so backwards. Many people seem to fill their time with social media and other pointless activities. These types of hobbies and projects are a missing, and critical, component to staying fulfilled and happy while avoiding many of the traps of modern technology. If a person gets fulfillment out of it no one here should be judging them. It is no different than reading for enjoyment.
  • ponker 6y ago
    That’s the kind of thinking that has achieved... nothing of importance.
• hodgesrm 6y ago
  What an insanely beautiful model. It makes me happy to think that humans find the time to do things that have no value beyond their beauty and the pleasure they give to people who work on them.
  • airstrike 6y ago
    Second time I link to this video this month, but Sir Roger Scruton has a truly impactful message on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc Can't find one without Portuguese subtitles, so hope that's OK
    • RodgerTheGreat 6y ago
      Scruton seems primarily preoccupied with dour gatekeeping over what should be considered beautiful or what should be aspired to, as though beauty were some objectively measurable quantity, and anything he deems "ugly" was deliberately crafted to annoy him.
      • igammarays 6y ago
        No! He is defending the impetus of artists to use beauty as a motivator for their works. He is not diminishing the subjective variations in different cultural beauties, or claiming only one kind of beauty exists. The problem is that modern Western art no longer considers beauty itself a motivator. And that’s a problem because beautific recognition is a deeply human need.
        • bosswipe 6y ago
          That's also a bad point, there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. But many other artists have different motivations. If Scruton is saying that only beautiful art should be produced than "dour gatekeeping" seems appropriate.
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• GekkePrutser 6y ago
  This is absolutely beautiful!! It speaks for his mindset as I would not have the patience to finish something like this. Besides skill, there's a high amount of perseverance and focus needed that most people don't have. Wow!
  • kayodelycaon 6y ago
    It certainly puts my attempt to write a novel to shame. I should get back on that. :)
  • bookofjoe 6y ago
    See also: Bryan Berg, world's greatest card stacker https://www.cardstacker.com/ https://www.cardstacker.com/
• rezeroed 6y ago
  Nevermind the model - those Illustrator skills!
• siavosh 6y ago
  Request - any books/articles anyone can recommend on the human mind's instinctive need to become obsessed with something? Periodically, like many others, my mind becomes obsessed with something and I need to learn/build until it ceases to be interesting which can range from days to years. Like hoarding, I think there's probably an evolutionary drive in this, but curious if there are good resources to better understand the different attributes of wanting to learn/do something to 'irrational' levels of details whether it's something seemingly inconsequential or consequential, which seems irrelevant to this human drive. So much joy has come out of these periods of obsessions, I'm curious to better understand it's source.
  • philshem 6y ago
    I don’t think it explains much in a scientific sense, but with the theme of passion and obsession, I really enjoyed The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_Thief https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_Thief And this famous quote from that book: > “The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason it matters to care passionately about something is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size. It makes the world seem not huge and empty but full of possibility." Edit: before the book was the New Yorker article, if you want to “try before you buy” https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1995/01/23/orchid-fever
    • siavosh 6y ago
      Thanks for the interesting reference. The drive to reduce uncertainty could certainly be a hypothesis in explaining animal curiosity and its persistence through natural selection for a population. I guess I'm more intrigued by the individual phenomena of obsession. The psychological aspects of my occasional obsessions are so vivid to me still. Years back when I got into woodworking, for example, I remember just visualizing as I fell asleep the use of hand planes and the pursuit of getting thinner and thinner shavings. Then I got into bread baking and I pursued everything I could for the ultimate oven spring, I would then start visualizing the reveal of the bread out of the oven. Then I got into mechanical watches (thankfully briefly) and couldn't stop reading about them, and relevant imagery kept popping into my head, etc etc etc. My world, priorities, value systems all just made sense in those periods which spanned months to years. Then inevitably when I moved on, I would look back and I couldn't relate or understand the obsession anymore. I'd transition from an insider to an outsider looking at it. It always surprises me how that transition, into and out of, an obsession alienates you from yourself.
• awinter-py 6y ago
  vector art layout step is surprisingly manual! I wonder if there's a market for a CAD tool that focuses on creating 2D cutouts for 3D models
  • abakker 6y ago
    The sheet metal workspace in fusion360 does this pretty nicely.
  • _jal 6y ago
    Not exactly what I think you're thinking of, but there's enough of a market for this to exist: https://www.vectric.com/products/cut2d-pro https://www.vectric.com/products/cut2d-pro More generally, modeling software tends to also handle sheet metal fabrication (closest to what you're thinking of) and surface modeling just fine.
    • ansible 6y ago
      Interesting product, seems like a nice 2D CAD/CAM package. Is there CAD software that helps you design a 3D product out of 2D parts? It didn't seem like this would really help with that.
  • codazoda 6y ago
    As another example, checkout Pepakura for Windows. I've used OpenSCAD to design simple 3D models and then used Pepakura to unfold them into flat designs. Manually cutting the designs is slow painstaking work. I eventually purchased a Cricut to cut the pieces out, but it's ability to cut shapes to a very specific scale is lacking. So, I find myself not having created very much.
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• code4tee 6y ago
  Great job. Handmade detailed models are always very impressive. Making it out of an odd material makes even more interesting.
• greg7mdp 6y ago
  This guy has truly mastered 3d printing!
• ishi 6y ago
  Building paper airplane models was a very popular hobby in Israel (and probably other countries) during the 1960's. Each issue of the Israeli Air Force Journal came with a model which you would painstakingly cut and glue. Here are some examples of what these models looked like: http://starry-side.com/wpe/wordpress/index.php/2019/08/08/old-card-models-from-holland/ http://starry-side.com/wpe/wordpress/index.php/2019/08/08/ol... Of course, this guy is on a whole different level of detail and dedication (plus he designs everything himself). Amazing work.
  • p_l 6y ago
    Was also very popular in communist era Poland, including people extending the paper models to be capable of self-propelled taxiing and certain set of "moveable" features implemented as extras.
    • malkia 6y ago
      Same thing in Bulgaria. One good side of "communism" was free modeling clubs for kids like me, so we've got rocket modelling (made 2, even 3 phase rockets while 3rd-4th grade), plane modelling (balsa wood, rice paper, etc.) - all for free - you pay for neither materials, nor courses, later it was computers (that's how I got into them). Before that also slot cars racing, ship modelling, there was even knot-making club (our city is on the black sea, so makes sense - future sailors!) I mean, even if communism is evil, there were some good things - way overpay, or pay anything for clubs that should've been free to begin with and get kids into them... It doesn't take much to support them compared to many other things...
      • errantspark 6y ago
        Czech Republic, reporting in! I'm too young to remember much of communism but I remember the balsa and rice paper gliders I built with my grandpa very fondly. There's something so fantastic about the fragile beauty of those planes with their skeletons visible beneath that translucent skin. There's a magazine in the Czech Rep. called ABC which always had plans for some sort of papercraft model in the back. I used to love them as a kid. https://www.abicko.cz/kategorie/6333/navody-z-abc https://www.abicko.cz/kategorie/6333/navody-z-abc
• kiba 6y ago
  I got a bunch of manila folder after being inspired...but I proceed to do nothing with it.
• d_silin 6y ago
  I wonder, if you fit some kind of propulsion and controls - will the model become flyable enough?
  • schoen 6y ago
    I don't think that was part of the intent - the weight and structural strength is probably a problem (including the strength of the glue joints), and the aerodynamics (because the connections between segments aren't airtight). The materials that the real plane is made of will have properties that are more suitable for a flying object.
  • ansible 6y ago
    There are plenty of flying models of various airliners. Some of them are quite detailed, though none with the incredible interior detailing this 777 has. You could put a lot of detail into a model that was intended to fly, but you wouldn't want start off with something intended to be a static model.
• ncmncm 6y ago
  I will always upvote this. My brother worked out the landing gear articulation, with mechanical locking; previous Boeings had complicated hydraulic valving to make the gear stop moving at the bottom, with the failure mode that it immediately folds back in. Here's hoping some of the 777s are chosen for hydrogen-fuel conversion. A 2-4 year job for a dozen A/Ps, by my guess. Aerogel-insulated LH2 tank amidships, all new fuel piping, new or reconfigured engines, for tens of tons more payload, and ultimately all wind- and solar-powered.
• aiisahik 6y ago
  Someone get this guy a job at Boeing. He seems like a better engineer than some of the people making real planes.
  • anonymousiam 6y ago
    What do you have against him? After having worked at Boeing for 35 years, I would never recommend it to anyone I cared about.
    • omarchowdhury 6y ago
      Why not? Tell us your story.
      • rs23296008n1 6y ago
        I think we have enough to guess with reasonable accuracy.
    • colonwqbang 6y ago
      Why did you work there for so long if you despise it so?
      • nine_k 6y ago
        Maybe the first 20-25 years were better. Same with IBM: they used to be great back in the day, but now I won't join them (except maybe if I were an IC manufacturing or quantum computing specialist, and the position were in IBM Research).
  • nerfhammer 6y ago
    Boeing invited him to tour their production line https://youtu.be/c47kn_Y4y8A?t=343 https://youtu.be/c47kn_Y4y8A?t=343
• zod50 6y ago
  Why is this particularly Air India though? Is the Boeing 777 different for other airlines?
  • LittlePeter 6y ago
    I do not know, but my guess is that it is related to the cabin layout. Each airline typically orders a quite specific arrangement of classes and seats which almost surely are unique to an airline. As to why Air India? Maybe he found a detailed 3D model of their chairs and cabin layout? Or maybe their cabin layout is particularly easy to model? Sorry for the drivel, just felt the urge to share my speculation.
    • zod50 6y ago
      np, good points. I was curious myself as well
    • nirmalc 6y ago
      He mentions about that here : https://www.ge.com/news/reports/try-this-at-home-this-kid-built-an-incredibly-detailed-model-of-a-boeing-777-from-cut-up-paper-folders https://www.ge.com/news/reports/try-this-at-home-this-kid-bu... "I also happened to find the highly-detailed Air India seat map online, which made it easier to design the interior."
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  • _xerces_ 6y ago
    Could be he was sponsored. It looks like one of his other projects was a request from Singapore Airlines, so maybe something similar here?
• rtkwe 6y ago
  Wonder how they're doing. Their socials linked on their site are all from 2-3 years ago. Followed this early and I think he may have mostly finished.
• nerfhammer 6y ago
  Lots of good videos by and about this guy https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=luca+iaconi-stewart https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=luca+iaconi-ste...
• justinclift 6y ago
  Wonder if the SpaceX team should have a chat with the designer about trying a Falcon 9 or Heavy next? :)
  • rtkwe 6y ago
    Doing a model rocket would be tougher there's a lot of bits they just couldn't show him due to ITAR restrictions. Also beyond the engines rockets are a LOT of empty space, there is some interesting structure in the skin but most of the volume is just empty. Destin from Smarter Every Day did a tour of the ULA factory where you can see the skin that provides a lot of the structure for their rockets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fG_lnVhHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fG_lnVhHw
    • justinclift 6y ago
      Cool video, thanks. :)
• holler 6y ago
  This blew my mind, wow! The level of detail is surreal, especially the cabin, wings, and wheels. Feels like looking at a manilla 3d rendering...
• fredfjohnsen 6y ago
  Just going to be very, very disappointed if it doesn't actually fly...
  • _benj 6y ago
    Even if it did I wouldn't fly it! After flying some RC models myself the chances of crashing it are way too high and without replaceable parts... Idk, pretty risky!
• yreg 6y ago
  Since we are on this forum, I'll take a bite: Carousels need to die. Everyone hates them, no one interacts with them unless they have to. The carousel doesn't work for the user and it doesn't work for the product. http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ https://www.dgtlnk.com/blog/website-carousel/ https://www.dgtlnk.com/blog/website-carousel/ The plane model is nice.
  • aww_dang 6y ago
    Like other generalizations, this is not absolute. Carousels have their place. I used one recently on a simple site which has three nouns in the name. Three small SVG icons scrolling in a carousel fit the theme. However, I agree that they are terrible where a gallery of thumbnails would be more suitable. The controls and auto scroll always seem to be cross-purpose.
  • colonwqbang 6y ago
    When you have a team of designers who can't agree on which image to put on the frontpage, the dreaded carousel is frequently the result. The more bitter their disagreement, the shorter the timeout on the slideshow.
    • colmvp 6y ago
      Designers? From my experience as a designer, it's almost never the actual designer who wants it. It's competing stakeholders.
    • albedoa 6y ago
      Another designer here. My experience is the same as the sibling comment: I have never known a carousel to be the result of two designers disagreeing.
  • cylon13 6y ago
    Tip for this site: disable javascript. It falls back to just a big list of photos which you can browse at your leisure. If you're somehow forced in to using a carousel, at the very least, make it so that it stops auto-changing once I've interacted with the arrows. There's nothing worse than having to repeatedly click the back arrow to just look at a single photo.
• jacquesm 6y ago
  I've gone down this particular rabbit hole before, it's pretty deep. Make sure to view the landing gear timelapse. Crazy attention to detail. I can't help myself and wonder if you'd stick a couple of ducted fans in it and a remote control whether it would fly.
• dh5 6y ago
  Absolutely incredible. I clicked on the link expecting nowhere near that level of detail. One of the pictures even shows individual wires on the landing gear. I'm thoroughly impressed by the dedication here.
  • jdnier 6y ago
    And one of the wires is even coiled!
• scotty79 6y ago
  Apparently manila folders are sheets of stiff paper folded in half. They look like folder icon in windows or other OSes. I have never seen one in real life. :-)
  • IncRnd 6y ago
    Actually :) :). The folder icon looks like a manilla folder :) :) :). Also, the main view where the wallpaper goes is called a desktop according to the same metaphor of a computer being a desk with a desktop where you store and view files.
    • skybrian 6y ago
      It seems like a bit of a mixed metaphor since you don't normally paste wallpaper onto a desk's top.
      • efreak 6y ago
        It's definitely a mixed metaphor. It still works, though. Wallpaper is paper used to decorate a wall; in this case the wall is a vertical desk.
      • IncRnd 6y ago
        I don't keep my garbage can on my desk, either :-). Yes, this is certainly a mixed metaphor - possibly even a cliche.
  • c3534l 6y ago
    Hour glass, floppy disk, envelope, AA style battery for laptops, and now manilla folders go on the pile of icons that are too abstract for people to recognize anymore. What next, people won't recognize the sheet of paper for document anymore? Clipboards are probably already weird now.
    • bookofjoe 6y ago
      also telephone icon
• hindsightbias 6y ago
  Even the thrust reverser works
• SillaDeRuedas 6y ago
  I can't believe this silly thing is in the frontpage.
  • schmilk 6y ago
    It's the hacker news "culture". As much as this site loves to hate on reddit (and I don't disagree with reddit hate), this community has its own cringe and pretentiousness which can be seen in silly articles like this reaching the front page. Edit for the downvoters: what does this article have to with technology besides the fact that some self proclaimed hacker thinks this article is interesting? This isn't hacker news, this is an attempt at hacker "community" and all the off topic articles are so random it makes me cringe and not visit this site anymore. This site comes off as a lifestyle magazine anymore.
    • dahart 6y ago
      I didn’t downvote, but just to explain what I see here: you used negative value judgements with words like “cringe” and “pretentious”, and then your question assumes that HN articles must be about technology. It’s worth re-reading the guidelines, because the definition of what’s invited and acceptable here is (and always has been) precisely that which hackers find interesting: “On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.” https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Also, stories don’t get to the front page on their own. They get there when a lot of people upvote them. Since your insults are directed at the people that upvoted this, and are being read by the people that upvoted this and visited the comments section, downvotes are quite predictable. It’s perhaps a good idea to upvote the things you like, and visit those comment sections instead of complaining.
      • schmilk 6y ago
        Why would I spend anymore time on this cringey lifestyle magazine? Site used to be alright. I've said my complaint, responded to you, and now I'm gone
• schmilk 6y ago
  This community is so weird/random
• Causality1 6y ago
  It's always struck me as bizarre that it's the convention to refer to length when using the word "scale". When I read it my mind is naturally inclined to think "volume" and I have to remind myself that 1:60 scale does not mean the model is 1/60 the size of the original.
  • detaro 6y ago
    Curious if you feel the same about scale on maps, or does your mental model work differently there?
    • Causality1 6y ago
      Not sure. I've never heard someone say or write "this is a 1:50 scale map" or something of the sort.
  • Theodores 6y ago
    At least the scale gives you an idea even if not as immediately intuitive as you would like. In model railway world you have O, HO, OO, N and plenty of other scales that sometimes are not even a scale - track guages can be different in scale to the trains. 1:60 is the convention for planes which is not the same as the 1:64 scale used for die cast toy cars. But these are the standards we are stuck with. Well it is convention for planes to be in 1:60 scale
  • triangleman 6y ago
    It's not 1/60 the size of the original?
    • Causality1 6y ago
      Nope. Volume varies with the cube of the length. A 1:60 scale model only takes up 1/216,000 the space of the original.
      • triangleman 6y ago
        You're right. I think it's time to hang up my username and go learn some math.
• jcun4128 6y ago
  damn, the amount of time that must have taken, the landing gear and the wing ribs are insane
• m3at 6y ago
  If you're interested in getting started with paper crafts like this, PePaKuRa [1] is a great software that takes care of all the 2D shapes arrangements and addition of padding for gluing pieces together. [1] https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/ https://tamasoft.co.jp/pepakura-en/
• rglover 6y ago
  In a romantic sense, I'd like to think this is what trust fund recipients do with their time.
• rkagerer 6y ago
  He had me at this door hinge mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8M-3dK4h1Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8M-3dK4h1Q And the steerable, retracting landing gear is phenomenal.
• interger 6y ago
  Reminds me of someone who makes car scale models mainly out of silver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSS7uBzDOio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSS7uBzDOio
• yla92 6y ago
  What a great story. I was wondering if a story about this guy have been posted before and indeed, it was. A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448365 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448365 The great takeaway for me from the story is his quote related to how he did all these things. "I was not born with these skills, I developed them over time. And the original model was actually pretty crude. And I've really learned a lot over the past number of years, and that's how I've gotten to where I am at now."
• cheerlessbog 6y ago
  As a young adult I could absorb myself in projects like this...in recent years, mid career, it just doesn't seem to happen. I can't make myself care enough about anything to the extent it's very hard to imagine how someone could do anything like this project. Anyone have a suggestion for how to find that again? Maybe I lost the ability to focus on anything I'm not required to do to get paid. Or maybe I'm mildly depressed and don't know it...how does someone do this?
  • Papirola 6y ago
    it's not that you need to "care enough" - it's something you cannot stop yourself from doing.
  • beenBoutIT 6y ago
    Stimulants and/or a psychiatric disorder that causes boundless energy. What you're not seeing is the crash and subsequent time-lapse footage of him sleeping for 5 solid days after.
    • wil93 6y ago
      "The project has been in progress since May 2008" He really just enjoys doing it :)
      • beenBoutIT 6y ago
        Wow, that's impressive.
• Hoasi 6y ago
  This level of dedication is so inspiring.
• soloken21 6y ago
  Nice.
• deleted 6y ago
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• abluecloud 6y ago
  this guy is hilarious.
• acqq 6y ago
  "Making of" landing gear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77oRSCxGmYA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77oRSCxGmYA "Gear Stats: •3 months' work between design and build (early June - early September). About a month per side. •Over 200 hours of work total (design+build). •Over 1,000 parts per side (not including the wheels), for a total well over 2,000. Video Stats: •Over 600GB of raw footage/130 hours. •Editing took 2 weeks. •Video was sped up 100-200x. •Produced in Final Cut and Motion."