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The best thing the chinese have got in their desert is a 1:20 model of a section of the india-china border. http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images706/scalemod
by JonnieCache 14y ago
The best thing the chinese have got in their desert is a 1:20 model of a section of the india-china border.
http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images706/scalemodel.jpg http://www.gearthblog.com/images/images706/scalemodel.jpg
http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/huge_scale_mode.html http://www.gearthblog.com/blog/archives/2006/07/huge_scale_m...
They also have a deserted replica of a typical english town: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Town
And they recently unveiled an exact replica of a real austrian town: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18327751 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-18327751
The rapid growth over there sure is producing some interesting things.
- contingencies 14y agoNice! Also, some obscenely rich guy in the east built a full-scale Whitehouse as a personal residence. In the southwest, there is giant 'Optimus Prime' Transformers statue advertising a car-yard. China and America are pretty similar, all things told.
- liquid_lazer 14y agoI need to see the Optimus Prime
- contingencies 14y agoLooks like there's one in Beijing now too. The Kunming one was there for 10+ years, and used to be far higher than any building in the area. http://www.aeromental.net/2010/11/05/optimus-prime-statue-in-beijing-china/ http://www.aeromental.net/2010/11/05/optimus-prime-statue-in...
- singular 14y agoPresumably that 'model' is just landscape badly pasted over some secret installation? Or is genuine?!!