Watching videos of very skilled artists make scale models of the world’s hottest, most popular, or most beautiful cars out of wood is endlessly fascinating and awe-inspiring. This is just like one of those videos, but with an added bonus of being incredibly soothing and, believe it or not, wholesome.
Here is the latest video that’s gotten everyone talking: a Korean artist who makes incredible stuff using a 3D pen decided to make his first car. Since he can’t afford to buy his dream car, the Porsche Taycan Turbo S, in real life, he settled on it as a model. The video was posted online at the beginning of last month.
The entire video is available at the bottom of the page and, unlike most creators’ videos, it doesn’t play like a “let me show you what I can do” clip but rather as a tutorial. It’s funny and packed with helpful advice at the same time, and self-deprecating jokes because the creator, who goes by 3D Sanago, knows only too well few others will take his advice and do what he did.
When you see the sheer amount of detailed work and the kind of effort and dedication he put into the project, no wonder only a handful of other people would feel up to the task.
The artist starts off by creating a wideframe for the car, based on a drawn Taycan sketch. He does the top, the sides, and the hood, and then glues them together to create a three-dimensional frame that he begins to fill out slowly, using the same 3D pen. Once every gap is filled in, the hard work starts.
The frame resembles clearly a Taycan at this point but is in need of much polishing. Sanago uses a soldering iron for the first phase of creating a smoother body, then a grinder and sandpaper. Plastic putty and a runnier type of putty are used to fill all gaps, and then more sanding takes place, this time with finer sandpaper. Inaccessible areas are smoothened using a metal file, with the entire process being both repetitive and time-consuming. Or, as the artist puts it, “the more you suffer, the smoother the surface comes out.”
The body is now ready for coloring, with Sanago choosing a gorgeous green. He says he will be buying a real green Porsche, should the video get to 200 million views. The next stage in the process involves adding the finer details, like bumper, mirrors, headlights, and taillights with actual working LEDs, windows, license plates, and the Porsche logo. He makes all of them himself, and goes into the details of the process.
One month later (or what feels to him like 2,500 years spend sanding), Sanago has an exact scale model of a Porsche Taycan. He puts that on top of a 1/10 scale RC car, and takes it for a first drive – first around the office and then in the great outdoors, where the Taycan gets to tackle (and eventually lose to) its first snow. Because “winter tires are important.”
If you have 19 minutes to spare, do check out this artist’s amazing work. You will be blown away by his patience and skill, while being carried away by his soothing, relaxing voice, and unexpected sense of humor.
The entire video is available at the bottom of the page and, unlike most creators’ videos, it doesn’t play like a “let me show you what I can do” clip but rather as a tutorial. It’s funny and packed with helpful advice at the same time, and self-deprecating jokes because the creator, who goes by 3D Sanago, knows only too well few others will take his advice and do what he did.
When you see the sheer amount of detailed work and the kind of effort and dedication he put into the project, no wonder only a handful of other people would feel up to the task.
The artist starts off by creating a wideframe for the car, based on a drawn Taycan sketch. He does the top, the sides, and the hood, and then glues them together to create a three-dimensional frame that he begins to fill out slowly, using the same 3D pen. Once every gap is filled in, the hard work starts.
The frame resembles clearly a Taycan at this point but is in need of much polishing. Sanago uses a soldering iron for the first phase of creating a smoother body, then a grinder and sandpaper. Plastic putty and a runnier type of putty are used to fill all gaps, and then more sanding takes place, this time with finer sandpaper. Inaccessible areas are smoothened using a metal file, with the entire process being both repetitive and time-consuming. Or, as the artist puts it, “the more you suffer, the smoother the surface comes out.”
The body is now ready for coloring, with Sanago choosing a gorgeous green. He says he will be buying a real green Porsche, should the video get to 200 million views. The next stage in the process involves adding the finer details, like bumper, mirrors, headlights, and taillights with actual working LEDs, windows, license plates, and the Porsche logo. He makes all of them himself, and goes into the details of the process.
One month later (or what feels to him like 2,500 years spend sanding), Sanago has an exact scale model of a Porsche Taycan. He puts that on top of a 1/10 scale RC car, and takes it for a first drive – first around the office and then in the great outdoors, where the Taycan gets to tackle (and eventually lose to) its first snow. Because “winter tires are important.”
If you have 19 minutes to spare, do check out this artist’s amazing work. You will be blown away by his patience and skill, while being carried away by his soothing, relaxing voice, and unexpected sense of humor.