Okay, I'm trading in my model trains.
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Mini-earthquake at 1:50? (see the tree fall over in the lower left corner?)
When I was watching the video I was thinking to myself 'Well....I'll be impressed when I see one takeoff' - - - - - HOLY CRAP! 3:08 - ONE TAKES OFF!
(seriously though I was already impressed)
When I was watching the video I was thinking to myself 'Well....I'll be impressed when I see one takeoff' - - - - - HOLY CRAP! 3:08 - ONE TAKES OFF!
(seriously though I was already impressed)
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That is AWESOME! Reminds me of a miniature world I visited as a kid in Rotterdam I think. But those planes didn't freaking take off!
Here is a cool article from when it opened. It's part of a miniature world in Hamburg, based on the Hamburg airport.
Knuffingen Airport: German builds world's largest model airport | Mail Online
EDIT: Video produced by the miniature world. This place is incredibly detailed (notice inside the terminal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotat...&v=Qz4NcTnQedo
Here is a cool article from when it opened. It's part of a miniature world in Hamburg, based on the Hamburg airport.
Knuffingen Airport: German builds world's largest model airport | Mail Online
It took a grand total of six years to build but an incredible new miniature model, called Knuffingen Airport, based on Hamburg’s airport, has finally opened to the public.
It’s on display at Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, and features 40 aircraft that take off and land and 90 vehicles that trundle around the runways automatically.
Making something this small and perfectly formed doesn’t come cheap. It cost 3.5million Euros – but the result is plane-ly amazing.
The real airport opened in 1911 and remains the oldest operational airport in the world. When it was first built it covered a mere 45 hectares – it’s now ten times bigger and measures a whopping 2.2sq miles.
The various vehicles and planes on the model version are able to move around thanks to an innovative ‘carsystem’, which manoeuvres the vehicles by computer.
The planes even take off thanks to miniature wires that carry them off the end of the runway.
The attention to detail is astounding. The planes park themselves and passenger walkways slowly move into place.
The tow trucks even feature little flashing orange lights and the petrol tanks can be seen indicating which way they are about to turn. What's more, the airport lights up spectacularly to create an entrancing night scene.
It’s on display at Miniatur Wunderland, in Hamburg, and features 40 aircraft that take off and land and 90 vehicles that trundle around the runways automatically.
Making something this small and perfectly formed doesn’t come cheap. It cost 3.5million Euros – but the result is plane-ly amazing.
The real airport opened in 1911 and remains the oldest operational airport in the world. When it was first built it covered a mere 45 hectares – it’s now ten times bigger and measures a whopping 2.2sq miles.
The various vehicles and planes on the model version are able to move around thanks to an innovative ‘carsystem’, which manoeuvres the vehicles by computer.
The planes even take off thanks to miniature wires that carry them off the end of the runway.
The attention to detail is astounding. The planes park themselves and passenger walkways slowly move into place.
The tow trucks even feature little flashing orange lights and the petrol tanks can be seen indicating which way they are about to turn. What's more, the airport lights up spectacularly to create an entrancing night scene.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotat...&v=Qz4NcTnQedo
Last edited by Globerunner513; 01-14-2013 at 07:39 AM.
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And the catering truck blow that stop sign at 1:10? Just like in real life!!
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