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

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

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

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

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

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

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

why!

Holy crap!

Because it's there..?

This guy IS crazy, but you've gotta admire the skill. I bet he could sculpt the D-Day landings on a penny piece. I'll pack in now before I give him any ideas.

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

Frank

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

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

Frank

.....or a mongust.....(to quote the great Edmund E. Blackadder)

Oda.