1:4 1931 Mercedes SSKL

[sjordan2]

Saw this link on another forum. Amazing, and amazingly huge.

http://www.dell-knives.de/sskl/index.html

[sjordan2]

I did a little digging and it turns out the builder, Wolfgang Dell, is a professional custom knifemaker and engraver. His website shows his facilities and his knives (if you don't speak German, you won't learn a whole lot here). Couldn't find any info on model cars.

http://www.dell-knives.de/pub/page.asp?l=de&id=3&id2=9

[Jim Gibbons]

Holy smokes! Way over the top. Amazing model of one of my favorite MBs. I do prefer the SSK with the full fenders, etc., though, mainly for the aesthetics. The L (Leicht for "light") version is still really neat, though.

[Harry P.]

I did a little digging and it turns out the builder, Wolfgang Dell, is a professional custom knifemaker and engraver. His website shows his facilities and his knives (if you don't speak German, you won't learn a whole lot here). Couldn't find any info on model cars.

http://www.dell-kniv...l=de&id=3&id2=9

Click on the little British flag icon at the upper right and you get the English version.

[Chuck Most]

Click on the little British flag icon at the upper right and you get the English version.

Harry, ich kenne nicht über Sie, aber ich bin nicht Englisch!

[Jantrix]

One would wonder if you are going to go through all that work to build something 1:4 scale, how much more work would it have really been to make it 1:1? Awesome work though.

[sjordan2]

One would wonder if you are going to go through all that work to build something 1:4 scale, how much more work would it have really been to make it 1:1? Awesome work though.

Check these out. Custom made one-of-a-kind scale model pedal cars, 1:2.5. Built in 1997 by a father and son in Duisburg, Germany. Only factory made pieces are the headlights, wheels and tires.

http://dfwelitetoymuseum.com/special-rare-toys/1928-mercedes-benz-ssk/

Edited August 26, 2010 by sjordan2

[Harry P.]

Harry, ich kenne nicht über Sie, aber ich bin nicht Englisch!

Bist du ein Berliner? (like JFK was)...

[Jim Gibbons]

Bist du ein Berliner? (like JFK was)...

As a humorous aside, in German, the article (ein) isn't used in the context of which city you're from. JFK should have said, "Ich bin Berliner!" If I recall, ein Berliner is some sort of pastry. Of course, the Germans knew what JFK meant, and not that he considered himself a jelly roll!

[Karmodeler2]

One would wonder if you are going to go through all that work to build something 1:4 scale, how much more work would it have really been to make it 1:1? Awesome work though.

That's exactly what I was thinking.....it's almost as much work to make everything out of brass in FULL scale, and it is in 1/4.....even easier for the nuts and bolts!!!

[Harry P.]

That's exactly what I was thinking.....it's almost as much work to make everything out of brass in FULL scale, and it is in 1/4.....even easier for the nuts and bolts!!!

But he didn't want to build a "real" car... he wanted to build a scale replica.

[Harry P.]

....and park it on a table in his backyard...

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"

[Chuck Most]

Bist du ein Berliner? (like JFK was)...

Ich bin kein Gebäck! Ich bin ein Mann! Ein Mann sagt ich Ihnen!!!!

[sjordan2]

Ich bin kein Gebäck! Ich bin ein Mann! Ein Mann sagt ich Ihnen!!!!

So...worldlingo.com says you said this:

I am not a pastry! I am a man! A man says I to you!!!!

But if you were a pastry, what kind would you be?

Edited August 27, 2010 by sjordan2

[Chuck Most]

So...worldlingo.com says you said this:

I am not a pastry! I am a man! A man says I to you!!!!

But if you were a pastry, what kind would you be?

A bismarck. DUH!!!!!

[horsepower]

Click on the little British flag icon at the upper right and you get the English version.

Oh darn, I bet you had your eye on this for the ROM thread too.

[sjordan2]

A bismarck. DUH!!!!!