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Historically Accurate Airport Dioramas by AV Pro Designs

A retired airline pilot continues his obsession

By Rain Noe - October 21
in Object Culture

Brian Keene is a former airline pilot and retired airline industry
executive who remains obsessed with airports. So much so that in his
retirement, he started AV Pro Designs, a company that manufactures
dioramas of famous airports. (They sell them to museums, institutions
and "the diorama community," whatever that is.)

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In designing the 1:1400 models, Keene draws on both his own
experiences as a pilot and archival photographs, recreating the
airports as they appeared during certain eras. The company's
rendition of JFK is from the '70s and '80s, LAX in the '80s and '90s,
for instance.

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Their model of BOM (Mumbai's airport) is particularly striking, as
they've done the nighttime view.

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The company's also done Heathrow and Newark; Hong Kong's Kai Tak and
France's Charles de Gaulle are in the works.


 

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    The diorama community simply refers to those who build, collect
    and appreciate dioramas.
    Billionaire Malcolm Forbes of Forbes magazine fame had a massive
    collection of military miniature figures and dioramas. He even
    converted Mendoub's Residence in Morocco into a museum to display
    his collection.

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        BTW. I think you mean 1:400 scale not 1:1400.
        Very impressive work regardless of scale.

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