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Comment by jamisteven | Hacker News Reader

I dont understand the praise for someone building model airplanes, is there some secret moral superiority about kids who build model planes from scratch versus kids building lego boats from kits or.

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Usually ‘building model airplanes’ involves buying ready-made, moulded plastic parts and kits, mounting and painting. This guy studied the plane and designed the whole thing from the ground up using paper only, made the mechanical parts functional and accurate. Entirely different story.

Yes, and for what reason, and what result? Perplexed why someone would spend this amount of time on such a thing. To each their own I suppose.

> for what reason

the pleasure

> what result?

a wonderful piece of work, self accomplishment, vast sum of knowledge in both airplanes and "sculpture", find any job in modeling with a snap and headline on HN :)

Don’t you think it would also amaze people that some well paid software developers would spend their free time working on open source software that is given away free?

This guy put in an insane amount of research and work to do this. I don't think there is a "secret moral superiority", but this takes a lot of dedication and focus which few people on this planet could achieve. I find this to be a very interesting project. Anyone can build lego bosts from kits and it only takes about an hour, so no one cares when you do it.

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