Incredibly detailed DIY paper model kits from Papero, created by some of Korea’s top exhibition designers. Sets priced from £17.80.
It could be the LEGO of Asia, were that position not already occupied by LEGO.
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The Medieval hell of Dante’s Inferno brilliantly recreated by Romanian artist Mihai Marius Mihu (for the 2011 MocOlympics) in the medium best suited to such weighty concepts.
From top: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treachery.
Model maker Jordu Schell’s creations feature in movies like Avatar and AvP.
This Dreamworks timelapse shows him conjour one of his trademark creations from clay in under an hour.
Pleasing to watch, whether or not you’re a Star Wars/LEGO geek.
Model maker Francisco Prieto sez:
Assembly of the Lego set 10179 from Star Wars Ultimate collector series in stop motion in 3D. Created using 3ds max and V-ray. A very long work over 3 years, modelling all the pieces by myself. and rendered frame by frame.
Music: Chambermaid Swing by Parov Stelar
Slot geeks gather at the European ‘Wing Car’ Championships in Helsinki back in 2010.
It’s claimed that the custom made cars travel at scale speeds of 5000mph, which all sounds a bit mad until about the blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em race starts at around 0.50.
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Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg is the world’s largest model railway and one of Germany’s most successful tourist attractions: a 1300 square metre layout with over a thousand tiny trains, aircraft, cars and ships scooting over, under and through it.
Loving that voiceover.
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Using materials that would equally be at home amongst idyllic model train sets, artist Thomas Doyle builds incredibly intricate mixed media dioramas that instead suggest something much darker. The sense of loss and a brooding darkness is present in almost every piece, where homes dangle on sheer cliffs, or are surrounded by apocalyptic waste. The pieces above, entitled The Barrage Lifts, and Firing for Effect, are from his ‘Distillation’ series.
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From a shoot for Italian Vogue by Steven Meisel: model Stella Tennant – in an an homage to Ethel Granger – wears a corset that cinches her waist to 13″. Apparently she could only stand it for 20 minutes at a time.