Yesterday, the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, opened its model Knuffingen Airport – officially the world’s largest model airport – after six years of construction time and over $US5 million in costs. Impressive.
[Images via Getty]
Republished from Gawker
James
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 8:43 AMThe designer of the airport has a video diary on youtube of the construction. There’s 20 or so entries and it’s really interesting stuff. First entry about the airport http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UiTGeR-Fus but be sure to enable closed captions.
Wade
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 9:56 AMWhy didn’t they just tilt shift photograph a real airport
Simon Reidy
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 11:22 AMhehe.. Touché. That’s actually what I thought it was when I saw the first photo in Google Reader :)
Des
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 2:03 PMWANT.
Gabriel
Friday, May 6, 2011 at 3:15 PMAwesome. It would be even better if they snuck in a few ‘Die Hard’ scenes and characters