World’s Largest Model Airport Completed In Hamburg, Germany -150 Square Meters Costing $4.8 Million
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Frederik and Gerrit Braun, energetic twin brothers with no shortage of dreams, have just finished construction of the world’s largest model airport. With 40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches, 300 buildings and 40 planes, Knuffingen Airport is both a wonder to behold as well as a technological tour de force. The best part of Knuffingen is that it’s alive. Forty planes and 90 vehicles move about autonomously.
Located in Hamburg, Germany, the model is based on Hamburg Airport. The level of detail throughout the 1:87 scale Knuffingen is phenomenal. Everywhere you look there’s an incredible amount of diversity: the miniaturized people’s clothing, the colors of the parking lot shrubbery, the different types of cars, all give the airport an impressive realistic feel. Like real airports the model is bustling with activity: packed parking lots, scores of passengers-albeit frozen-moving into and out of the terminals, circulating taxi cabs and busses, different types of aircraft from Airbus 380s to Cessnas, even a squad of fire trucks standing ready in the event of an emergency. Blinking lights and bustling crowds seem to be everywhere. Just looking at the model closeups gives me real airport anxiety!
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Frederik and Gerrit Braun, energetic twin brothers with no shortage of dreams, have just finished construction of the world’s largest model airport. With 40,000 lights, 15,000 figurines, 500 cars, 10,000 trees, 50 trains, 1000 wagons, 100 signals, 200 switches, 300 buildings and 40 planes, Knuffingen Airport is both a wonder to behold as well as a technological tour de force. The best part of Knuffingen is that it’s alive. Forty planes and 90 vehicles move about autonomously.
Located in Hamburg, Germany, the model is based on Hamburg Airport. The level of detail throughout the 1:87 scale Knuffingen is phenomenal. Everywhere you look there’s an incredible amount of diversity: the miniaturized people’s clothing, the colors of the parking lot shrubbery, the different types of cars, all give the airport an impressive realistic feel. Like real airports the model is bustling with activity: packed parking lots, scores of passengers-albeit frozen-moving into and out of the terminals, circulating taxi cabs and busses, different types of aircraft from Airbus 380s to Cessnas, even a squad of fire trucks standing ready in the event of an emergency. Blinking lights and bustling crowds seem to be everywhere. Just looking at the model closeups gives me real airport anxiety!
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