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Old 09-24-2006, 12:36 PM   #1
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Now that is detail work

Iqbal Ahmed—India's Model Engineer

Look at the size of these fully working engines. The steamengine is the size of his thumbnail.
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Old 09-24-2006, 01:25 PM   #3
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That guy is a craftsman! Pure artistry!
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Yeah, I've seen that somewhere a few years ago. Isn't he from Japan originally?
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just...wow...
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Now that I like.
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Yep! Awesome stuff
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Old 09-25-2006, 06:05 AM   #9
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Young C Park is the guy who made the Mustang, and these F4U Corsairs-the cockpit controls actually move the airelons
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Cool, he really puts attention to detail.
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Now that is an artisan.
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Agreed. Really is amazing. That must have taken a LONG time to build.
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WOW... Thats AMAZING!!!

I wouldn't be suprised if you hit the engage button on that thing, and it turned over.
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I went to see that model a couple of weeks ago.

His P51 and F4U models are so detailed, you can even see he had an electrical harness for the instruments!

Think I'm joking?

I need to shrink down the pics so you can see them.
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