Weekend Quiz

[Martin Antonenko]

Dear Planeteers!

This is the absolute smallest fully detailed and fully scratch built tank model in the world - a Russian T 34-85 ...:




And the quiz questions of the day are:

1. Who built it?

2. By what material it is made?

3. How big (or small!) is it really ...?

A tip: Willard Wiggins is NOT the one you're looking for!


Cheers

 

[billyturnip]

1.Nikolai Aldunin
2.Gold
3.Very, very small.

 

[jai]

the tank is resting on a section of an apple seed ...

 

[jai]

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Jay and Roger: You're right!



Ist an apple seed...:




And you could put together five or six of this of those tanks on one piece, nearly uncredible...:





And this is the artist: Nikolaj Aldunin...:




BTW: The tank is from pure gold...!


Nice weekend to you all!

Cheers

 

[billyturnip]

Just as I thought, he looks as mad as a hatter.

 

[billyturnip]

Not at all like the normal people who build them in plastic at 1/72 and 1/35 scale.

 

[Martin Antonenko]

Here are a few more works by Nikolaj Aldunin ...:

An AK 47 (lying on a match) ...:





The Moscow TV Tower (again on an apple seed) ...:





And a Russian Samovar (standing on a sewing needle and barely visible to the naked eye!) ...:





The absolute hammer, however, is this work: A saddle and horseshoes (made of gold!) for a flea ...:




This guy could sculpt the eyelashes of a 1/35 figure separately...




Cheers

 

[DEL]

why!

 

[theBaron]

Holy crap!

 

[frank h]

Hi ...........Counted the rivets on the tank ..................They are all there

Frank

 

[billyturnip]

Hi ...........Counted the rivets on the tank ..................They are all there

Frank

Probably but I still think there's a screw loose.

 

[frank h]

There is usually a screw loose ..........with rivet counters ..........

Frank