Paper Airplane Artist Spends Decade a Building a Highly-Detailed Model of a Boeing 777 Airliner

Paper airplane artist Luca Iaconi-Stewart sat down with Wired to explain how he spent the past decade, on and off, carefully creating a highly-detailed paper model of a Boeing 777 airliner using manila folders, X-ACTO blades, glue, and straight edges.

What began as a school project years ago has morphed into an oft torn apart and then rebuilt model. It's garnered a healthy Youtube following of fellow aviation and modeling buffs who cheer at Iaconi-Stewart's fastidious attention to detail and fidelity in such a limited material. (read more)

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