Let's build...

March 20, 2007 1:25 PM

Let's build...Blarney Castle, a model building to test on an earthquake simulator, Thoreau's cabin, a stirling engine, the NYC transit system, a model bridge, Galileo spacecraft, the Mars Polar Lander, a flying Martin XB-51, Aliens universe papercraft, a train layout under your bed, a stereoscope, a flying saucer. Or we could let The Swell Maps do it: Let's Build a Car. And don't forget, "Your country needs scale model planes for the emergency."
posted by OmieWise (7 comments total)

Sweet christ, someone else in the world has heard of the Swell Maps! Thank you, oh thank you.
posted by freebird at 2:39 PM on March 20, 2007

Good work, O-Wise!
I absolutely love this stuff. Still have my original USS Enterprise from 1972, in all its yellowed and dusty glory.
Fantastic-Plastic.com is also an invaluable source for SF craft of every stripe.
(If only I had bought the Moonbus from "2001" from my local drugstore when I was 9-- I could retire on the E-Bay profit...
Bought a boatload of Archie comics instead...)
posted by Dizzy at 2:42 PM on March 20, 2007

Heh. Love the inclusion of the Swell Maps in there...

Yeah models...Airplane glue (snnnnf) and strange parts that somehow built a whole. Sometimes I get the urge to build a model battleship.
posted by Skygazer at 2:47 PM on March 20, 2007

Whoa, I've actually started two of these projects.
posted by DU at 4:36 PM on March 20, 2007

I'm sure this has been linked to before on mefi but Yamaha has some pretty impressive paper craft projects including a few motorcycles and some animals.
posted by asterisk at 12:28 AM on March 21, 2007

youy may have just added 20 years to my fathers life.

thank you
posted by altman at 2:41 AM on March 21, 2007

props to any thread that includes the swell maps
posted by psychoticreaction at 10:41 PM on March 21, 2007