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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 12:55 PM
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Check this out! This is one of the most amazing scale models I have ever seen.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...l-airport.html

Old Aug 14, 2011 | 01:04 PM
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Goddamn! Somebody has some time and money to blow. Impressive model. Wonder exactly what scale. Hard to really tell how large some of the objects really are. Looks like some of the planes are in the 2' wing span area.

How ******* boss would it be to jump up there and Godzilla attack that ****!
Old Aug 14, 2011 | 01:15 PM
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Having spent some serious time around airports, in addition to it being bad-*** all around, was the detail inside the maintenance hangar. I saw some highly detailed cracks in the floor and a properly spaced floor drainage system. I know they tried to do an exact replica, so those cracks and drains are probably identical to the real ones in that actual hangar.

There are some other Youtube videos on it, but all in German. If anybody finds a "behind the scenes" in English, please post it.
Old Aug 14, 2011 | 01:53 PM
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Pretty bad ***, I gotta ask though, besides the obvious novelty of it, what's the purpose of spending all that time and 3.5M EURO on something like this?
Old Aug 14, 2011 | 02:03 PM
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http://www.geekosystem.com/german-model-airport/



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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by samnavy
If anybody finds a "behind the scenes" in English, please post it.
http://tagebuch.miniatur-wunderland.de/

http://www.youtube.com/user/MiWuLaTV#g/p

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Old Aug 14, 2011 | 02:16 PM
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Fail. Those planes are pulling up to the jetway at a totally unrealistic speed.
Old Aug 14, 2011 | 02:31 PM
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Fail. Those flightline vehicles are traveling at totally unrealistic unsafe taxi speeds.
Old Aug 14, 2011 | 02:56 PM
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What's up with the space shuttle? They're not even in service anymore.
Old Aug 14, 2011 | 04:23 PM
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Hey, it is pretty bad *** I think.
Old Aug 14, 2011 | 06:28 PM
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holy crap that's awesome. even the turbines spin
Old Aug 15, 2011 | 01:54 PM
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I wonder if there are real drug smugglers in there? Maybe some terrorists with dirt bombs?
Old Aug 15, 2011 | 02:39 PM
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I'm thinking that's a really expensive way to draw in JO buddies.
Old Aug 16, 2011 | 10:21 AM
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Wow that had to cost a small fortune!
Old Aug 16, 2011 | 11:10 AM
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MCO is weird. It's like a suburban shopping mall which happens to have airline gates attached to it for no obvious reason.
Old Aug 16, 2011 | 01:06 PM
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Originally Posted by gospeed81
I'm thinking that's a really expensive way to draw in JO buddies.
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