[HN Gopher] Historically Accurate Airport Dioramas by AV Pro Des...
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Historically Accurate Airport Dioramas by AV Pro Designs
Author : surprisetalk
Score : 50 points
Date : 2025-11-20 19:21 UTC (4 days ago)
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| michaelbuckbee wrote:
| All I could think looking at the (amazing) dioramas was how much
| time they could save with something like the EufyMake Printer
| that could print out all the textures they're making by hand (or
| 3d printing).
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| Adam Savage review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8r1UBwLL0
| Wistar wrote:
| Big model related:
|
| Back in the 80s, when I lived near Sausalito, one free Saturday I
| visited the US Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model. It is a huge
| and incredible scale model of the hydrology of the whole Bay Area
| and a part of the Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta. It is
| larger than a football field. The day I visited there was almost
| no one else there and I got a leisurely two hour tour.
|
| I have read that, today, it is very popular with long lines.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...
| breakbread wrote:
| There's a similar large scale (~200 acres) model of the
| Mississippi River Basin https://friendsofmrbm.org/
| devilbunny wrote:
| There's also the not-maintained (because outdoors and no longer
| used) Mississippi River Basin model, built near the site of a
| WW2 POW camp in Mississippi. Italian and German POWs provided
| the initial labor for site preparation.
|
| It covers 200 acres (~80 ha), vs 1.5 acres for the Bay model.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River_Basin_Model
|
| If you have an interest in going (I've never been despite
| growing up in the area and having family there still), I would
| advise waiting for cold weather - it is perfect snake habitat,
| and water moccasins are both venomous and relatively
| aggressive.
| mwexler wrote:
| The JFK one can be seen in the lobby of the TWA hotel
| (https://www.twahotel.com/photos). If you have a layover, or can
| come early, this whole lobby is worth a good 25 minute
| walkthrough.
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9DEIWOKCIA to see a walk around
| and build of the diorama.
| dylan604 wrote:
| TWA hotel? Did I wake up in the 1960s? How is TWA hotel a thing
| in 2025?
| decimalenough wrote:
| The former TWA Flight Center at JFK was converted into a
| hotel.
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Hotel
| MarkusQ wrote:
| Interesting how the older dioramas seem slightly yellowed/sepia-
| toned. I'd always that thought that was an artifact of older
| photographs (and I certainly remember the world being just as
| vividly colored back then), but if these are "historically
| accurate," maybe I'm mistaken?
| CGMthrowaway wrote:
| AV-Pro works from period color chips, not from faded photos.
| They replicate every Pantone card the airline handed the
| terminal architect. Those original chips are already the
| buttery, camel, avocado and rust you see in the model
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| It probably felt brighter and more vivid at the time, because
| we were seeing it under our mental-white balance of fluorescent
| lights and comparing it to nicotine-pantinaed older materials.
| Today in our mental white balance model, we have titanium-white
| plastics and "cool-white" LEDs that didn't exist then
| MarkusQ wrote:
| Interesting. I also noticed a huge difference before/after
| cataract surgery. :)
| Animats wrote:
| The over the top airport diorama - Minatur Wunderland.[1]
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| [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOL-FnTwhUQ
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