Model airport
09-29-2011, 01:47 AM
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Model airport
You guys have got to check this out! Amazing!
Knuffingen Airport: German builds world's largest model airport | Mail Online
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Knuffingen Airport: German builds world's largest model airport | Mail Online
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09-30-2011, 03:28 PM
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A friend sent me a link to this a few weeks ago. Pretty cool that someone took the time to put that much detail into it! Obviously who ever built it has a lot of money and must not like girls or sex.
Here's a link to the youtube video with the airport operating at night. Very impressive!
Knuffingen Airport
Here's a link to the youtube video with the airport operating at night. Very impressive!
Knuffingen Airport
09-30-2011, 06:39 PM
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I remember a vid last year or before that, that was a documentary style with the guy in charge, how they were running into logic problems with the computers, and some of the processes of how they were making everything physically work. Very very impressive!
09-30-2011, 07:05 PM
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10-01-2011, 06:50 AM
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Very Cool
That is incredible, especially the night shots.
About the only flaws I can see that say "Hey, this is a model!" (Yes, I know this is nit-picking):
1. The tires on the airplanes seem a little too big. 747 looks OK, but 737 or A-320 they look toyish.
2. When the Lufthansa A-340 comes to a stop at the gate, it stops way too quickly.
3. The flags flutter too fast.
There is a brief scene where a hapless 707 is sitting minus its nose-gear. I wonder what they do with that one?
Really cool.
About the only flaws I can see that say "Hey, this is a model!" (Yes, I know this is nit-picking):
1. The tires on the airplanes seem a little too big. 747 looks OK, but 737 or A-320 they look toyish.
2. When the Lufthansa A-340 comes to a stop at the gate, it stops way too quickly.
3. The flags flutter too fast.
There is a brief scene where a hapless 707 is sitting minus its nose-gear. I wonder what they do with that one?
Really cool.
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10-01-2011, 10:51 AM
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That is impressive!
If it were a U.S. airport, I'd say he built it with the miniature money he saved by screwing the miniature crews out of their pay in a miniature bankruptcy!
Actually, that would make perfect sense if it were an African airport! I'm guessing he built it as a European airport because it would have been too difficult to have the Southwest planes taxiing twice as fast as everyone else and running off the ends of the runway. 
The other flaw I saw was the MD-11 landed and remained right side up.
The other flaw I saw was the MD-11 landed and remained right side up.
10-03-2011, 05:19 PM
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That is incredible, especially the night shots.
About the only flaws I can see that say "Hey, this is a model!" (Yes, I know this is nit-picking):
1. The tires on the airplanes seem a little too big. 747 looks OK, but 737 or A-320 they look toyish.
2. When the Lufthansa A-340 comes to a stop at the gate, it stops way too quickly.
3. The flags flutter too fast.
There is a brief scene where a hapless 707 is sitting minus its nose-gear. I wonder what they do with that one?
Really cool.
About the only flaws I can see that say "Hey, this is a model!" (Yes, I know this is nit-picking):
1. The tires on the airplanes seem a little too big. 747 looks OK, but 737 or A-320 they look toyish.
2. When the Lufthansa A-340 comes to a stop at the gate, it stops way too quickly.
3. The flags flutter too fast.
There is a brief scene where a hapless 707 is sitting minus its nose-gear. I wonder what they do with that one?
Really cool.
12-19-2011, 07:04 PM
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The model goes beyond the airport. Really amazing.
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