Model Making at Its Best

http://thebizzare.com/cool/model-making/ ^

[tired1]

The P-51D Mustang model was built by Young C Park who surprisingly is a dentist by nature. Built exactly like the original plane, it is on a 1/16 scale. Like you can imagine, a lot of hours of work has gone into it. He has worked for 6000 hours in a span of three years to finish it. The model shows the creator’s superior sculpting skills. In the last pictures you will also see how the wings are made over a wooden shape.

[SZonian]

I’ve seen a lot of models in my time, but this guy has taken it to a whole new level.

Those are just phenomenal!

SZ

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Amazing. Almost as amazing is how someone could work on a model of that complexity for 6000 hours and not break it a dozen times over.

[Yo-Yo]

Great times two.........I didnt see any post that mentioned that there are two differant model planes there, an Allison inline V-16 powered P-51 and a Navy Corsair, with a radial motor. I believe that iis it, but may be wrong on the ID of the second model.

You are indeed correct. That is an F4U Corsair. Without paint, it's hard to say if it is Navy or Marine Corps, but it is a Corsair.

[riverrunner]

At the avg of 5.5 hrs a day the guy needs another life.

[rightly_dividing]

Ping

I thought that with your Marine aviation background, that you may appreciate this thread.

[tanknetter]

You are indeed correct. That is an F4U Corsair. Without paint, it's hard to say if it is Navy or Marine Corps, but it is a Corsair.

The three-bladed prop and the clean cowl (later variants had scoops) identify it as an F4U-1. The blown canopy means that it probably is an F4U-1A. The rounded wingtips (not cut down and squared off) mean that it isn't an RN Corsair II. Although flown by some USN squadrons (and a few allied nations), the Corsair was predominantly a USMC bird due to initial carrier-compatibility issues that resulted in the F6F being the carrier fighter of choice.

[DocRock]

"One of their ongoing assignments was to use instruments to carve small wax blocks into identical replicas of each tooth in the mouth."

I grew up in the gemstone industry and spent most of my free time in my father's gemological laboratory. The rest of my free time I spent building models and my skills exceeded my age. When I finally traveled to see our goldsmiths in Hong Kong as a young man, I knew that my model building skills were better than most of their jewelry making skills, so I became a custom jeweler. We carve wax to cast jewelry, just like your dentist friends carve teeth to cast. I just started with models instead of wax.

[1955Ford]

Another thing that is amazing to me is the P-51 and other WWII aircraft. They were built only 40 yrs after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. By comparison, the planes that fly today don’t look much different from the planes that were flying 40 yrs ago.

[tanknetter]

By comparison, the planes that fly today don’t look much different from the planes that were flying 40 yrs ago.

That's because, in a lot of cases, they ARE the same planes that were flying 40 years ago ... ;-)

[smokingfrog]

That’s unbelievable.

I hope the machine guns don’t actually work, or he’s gonna get a visit from the BATF.

[rightly_dividing]

That's because, in a lot of cases, they ARE the same planes that were flying 40 years ago

And with the Dems in charge of things, they are likely to be the same planes that we will be flying for the next 40 years.

[tanknetter]

And with the Dems in charge of things, they are likely to be the same planes that we will be flying for the next 40 years.

When the last B-2A is retired to AMARG, it'll be a B-52 that flies the boneyard-run crew home ...

[knews_hound]

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[wolficatZ]

Thanks for posting, here is a little more detail on his construction methods.. http://www.craftsmanshipmuseum.com/park.htm

[MediaMole]

Amazing work, but the picture you linked is a Corsair.

[MarkL]

Not surprising at all.

When I was in medical school, I roomed with a number of dental students.

One of their ongoing assignments was to use instruments to carve small wax blocks into identical replicas of each tooth in the mouth.

They would spend hours on the things and sometimes had to redo them completely if rejected by their professors.

Dentists have to have patience, good visual-spatial skills, and the ability to persist over what, to me, was incredibly tedious tasks.

It is no surprise that a dentist would do something as intricate and detailed as this.

I agree. My grandfather was a dentist, and eventually became a professor of dentistry at NYU. "Back in the day," there weren't many "dental labs" so the dentist was expected to make his or her own bridges, plates, crowns, and other dental appliances. Many dentists had extensive art backgrounds. My grandfather was an artist, preferring to sketch with charcoal, and in his spare time he would repair clocks and watches. He often cast his own replacement parts for those clocks and watches.

Mark

[MHGinTN]

I dated a Cole of California swimwear one, decades ago. [Wonder what happened to that young Lady?]

[fieldmarshaldj]

What, no pictures ? :-P

[MHGinTN]

I wish! ... It was 1965.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Ah, before they invented the Brazilian.