Posted on 01/14/2010 3:16:31 PM PST by 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.
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who surprisingly is a dentist by nature
If you think about it, maybe not surprising
Five and a half hours every day?
THAT is master craftmanship!
I wasn't aware that professions were genetically determined.
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.
Amazing stuff.
WOW !
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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.
Astonishing. I once read about a man that built a quarter scale Rolls Royce Merlin Engine of the type used in the P51 and it ran of course. I believe it was in RC Modeler. Some are real wizards.
That is amazing!
I can still remember, as a kid, seeing rows and rows of P51s parked in the aircraft boneyard (at Davis-Monthan AFB if I remember correctly).
I wanted one badly, and when I asked my parents what they did with all of those beautiful planes, they told me all of them would be destroyed.
It was not something I wanted to hear.
I know I’d like to make a model.
re: dentist
Not surprising in the least -— few professions or activities require as much patience, precision, attention to detail, etc. as dentistry.
Now it the guy was a liberal politician, then yes, that would be surprising in every aspect!!
That and pre-destination made it inevitable that he would make this model and be a dentist. He really had no say in the matter. /s
I think all my models (cars, planes, and ships) were built in less than two days including paint. And after hanging around my bedroom for about a year they would all face the same fate. A can of lighter fluid, a match, and out of my mouth the sound of a bomb explosion or crash, the best a 9 year old could muster.
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