An Incredibly Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing 777 Created Using Manila Folders

[arcane1]

Luca Iaconi-Stewart is building a jaw-droppingly detailed 1:60 scale model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders. He has been working on the model on and off for the past five years and even dropped out of college to work full time on it (he expects to finish it in early 2014). His attention to detail is just astonishing—the landing gear retracts, the interior is fully outfitted with seats, even the doors can be opened and are meticulously detailed. Be sure to check out Iaconi-Stewart’s photos of his creation on Flickr, and this time-lapse of him painting the model in Air India livery.





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[malthaussen]

1. The Magistrate will want to see this.:) n/t

[Suich]

2. That's really cool!

Amazing amount of detail! And made out of paper? Never would have thought of that!

[Ptah]

3. What, he couldn't find one million toothpicks?

That;s an amazing thing he did there!

[Agschmid]

4. That's amazing...

[Little_Wing]

5. When the muse calls...

One must surrender.

[kwassa]

6. I have to ask this question.

Why?

[Agschmid]

7. I mean...

I'd date him now.

[kwassa]

8. Again. Why?

You like obsessives?

Or is there something I am not seeing here?

[Agschmid]

9. I like planes.

[CFLDem]

10. Good reason

The model is beautiful!

[passiveporcupine]

13. this model should be worth millions

And because I've built models with paper and cardboard before, and know how they hold up, I hope he will eventually put it under glass to keep it clean and preserve it for life.

You are obviously not an artist. It's not obsession, it's artistic/creative drive that pushes someone to these levels of focus and effort.

[Daemonaquila]

14. Dropping out of school? That's going too far.

I've had the creative drive hand me some pretty crazy projects in my life. However, if one project, with no expectation of any kind of profit at the end, causes you to quit school or take other measures that will cause problems holding one's life together now or in the future, that's going too far.

[Earth_First]

16. Art often isnt the pursuit of wealth. nt

[passiveporcupine]

21. How do you know

That this model will be his ticket to a job of his dreams? Maybe he was in school to learn to be a model maker? Or if not, maybe now he realizes that is what he really enjoys, and can go back to school to get a degree in it?

[svpadgham]

31. He can always go back to school.

It's not like you're barred from the club if you quit before graduating.

[kwassa]

17. I'm both an artist and art teacher. I still ask "Why?"

Art is about asking why.

[Logical]

23. I have trouble believing this. n-t

[kwassa]

24. This is craft, not art.

In my humble opinion.

Great technical skill. No personal expression.

now we could get into some post-modernist decontructivist discussion about how banal objects are actually works of art ...
but we don't really need to go there.

[MicaelS]

27. Oh, let's go there.

To me this is more of a Work of Art than slopping paint onto a canvas with buckets of paint. A chimpanzee could that.

But then I think a fine automobile like a Ferrari or Lamborghini is a Work of Art, also. Not just beautiful to look at, but you can actually put your hands on it, sit in it, ride in it, and enjoy it those tactile ways, not just staring at it.

[Nitram]

32. The person who designed the Jaguar is an artist.

The people who built them are craftsmen.

[kwassa]

35. Especially the people who built them out of manilla folders.

[1monster]

30. In my humble opinion, as an artist, a crafter, and a teacher, craft is art and art is craft.

[kwassa]

36. I disagree.

Craft is about technical skill, art is about creative expression. Craft is often simply about assemblage. There can be very blurred lines between the two, of course.

[1monster]

38. You have a right to your opinion, but every art of which I have any knowledge, experience,

or talent has its necessary technical side and without creativity, craft dies.

[kwassa]

39. well, lots of craft dies. that is common.

[TeamPooka]

40. why is furniture art?

[kwassa]

43. Is furniture art?

It can be.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Why did I just have a "binders full of women" flashback?

[Agschmid]

19. Oh my gosh!!!!

No don't compare me to him! Ugh.

[yawnmaster]

20. And the answer is...

Why not?

[Logical]

22. Really? You honestly have no idea why? n-t

[treestar]

11. Wow

people can be so talented.

[passiveporcupine]

12. Thank you so much for posting this

I've never seen anything so incredible.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

18. Wow! And why?

[Aldo Leopold]

25. Honey, have you seen that huge crate of manilla folders I just bought?

[Demo_Chris]

26. It is well worth checking out this guy's flickr page. nt

[Blue_Tires]

42. he's also on a.net

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/aviation_hobby/read.main/131994/

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/aviation_hobby/read.main/132644/

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

28. I've been on flights...

...long enough that I felt like the plane was just about that size.

[DemoTex]

29. Love the bottle of Bombay gin in the background!

(in one of the pics at the link).

[66 dmhlt]

33. That is JAW-DROPPING AWESOME!

[LibDemAlways]

34. Clearly a guy with time on his hands. Amazing.

[DemoTex]

37. "Too much time on hands"? Like Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci?

I think the "too much time on hands" argument is specious. The guy is an artist. This is his Opus Major. He is not a slacker. Nor is he suffering from, like a psych friend posits: "Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Diagnostic code 300.3 - in the Diagnositic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders." Da Vinci and Rodin might be in trouble by those measures. I think this was a well-calculated, well-documented job application.

So my brother must agree, too, somewhat. I sent him the link. He sent this link to his friend Carmen Boeing (first name changed, but she is a member of the Boeing family). Not that she has anything to do with the company anymore. But a call from "Carmen" might get this dude a job as a modeler with Boeing. That, or Airbus will scarf him up!

Captain Mac
"If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going!"

[Blue_Tires]

41. So after all that work he's going to ruin it by putting it in AI livery?

[jmowreader]

44. Please tell me he didn't build the batteries.