To those of us whose mancraft skills topped out with Pinewood Derby, what John Teal from the U.K. can do with 12 letter-sized sheets of plastic is indistinguishable from magic.
When we last left John, a property maintenance worker who lives in Manchester, England, he had just completed “G” in the midst of an A to Z blogging challenge. That entry, G is for Giraffe, was a fun piece that introduced me to a piece of Cockney rhyming slang I’d never heard before.
But his “P” entry blew me away. In P is for Plastic, John shows how he creates amazingly realistic models of a train starting with nothing more than 12 plain sheets of plastic.
Surely ILM is about to come calling.
And with this entry, MDB is creating a new post category called Mancraft.
You to kind by far !!
The train featured in the video is of a UK prototype, but I do dabble with “out of the box” trains of a US prototype which may be more familiar to most of you. There is a link to that stuff down the bottom right of my blog, labelled imaginatively “my other blog”
John