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Beautiful Hand-Made Wooden Vespa
The Vespa scooter has a classically appreciable shape. Portuguese craftsman Carlos Alberto managed to fashion one from laminated hardwood. The result is stunningly beautiful.
The Making of Wooden Scooter:-
The little scooter is based on an original Vespa which had fallen into complete disrepair, but using long-tested woodcraft techniques a flowing new body was constructed for the runabout. The main spine of the bike is fashioned from steam bent and laminated veneers upon which very nicely carved body work hangs. Even the package tray and seat are made from wood. We would have probably gone with a traditional seat, but that's just cause we're a bunch of softies like that. Realistically though, we're betting this Vespa is now quite a few pounds heftier than when it started out, and the original was not known for its swiftness so despite it's beauty it's probably kind of a pig in the performance department. Then again, if something looks that good, we'll give the zero to sixty times a pass.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Amazing Wooden Scooter
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Amazing Tree Houses Around the World
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
This is what you call a Train Set!
Foraward by Nelson S Oliveira
This is the world's biggest train set which covers 1,150 square meters (12,380 square feet), features almost six miles of track and is still not complete
Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the 'Miniatur Wunderland' in 2000
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The set covers six regions including America , Switzerland , Scandinavia , Germany and the Austrian Alps
The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades, Grand Canyon ...
...and Mount Rushmore
The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn
The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a 'fjord'
It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set will cover more than 1,800 square meters (19, 376 sq ft)and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will have been added
It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons
The longest train is 46ft long
The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights...
...and 160,000 individually designed figures
Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery...
The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system which mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off
The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre
In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than �8 million to put together, the vast majority of which has come from ticket sales
Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, woman, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in"
Frederik added: "Whether gambling in Las Vegas , hiking in the Alps or paddling in Norwegian fjords - in Wunderland everything is possible"The world's biggest model train set.
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