The level of detail and dedication required for such a project to be successful is simple amazing. San Francisco-based designer Luca Iaconi-Stewart has been working on a extremely ambitious project; a 1:60 scale reproduction of a Boeing 777.
The idea for the project grew out of his love of airplanes—and the “massing models” he made from manila paper in a high school architecture class.
Soon after he found a really detailed diagram online of an Air India 777-300ER, Iaconi-Stewart was drawing forms in Adobe Illustrator, printing them on manila, and wielding his X-Acto knife. “There’s something rewarding about being able to replicate a part in such an unconventional medium,” he says.
Iaconi-Stewart devoted an entire summer just to the seats (20 minutes for an economy seat, four to six hours for business class, and eight hours for first class). He designed the engines in about a month and assembled them in four. The tail he rebuilt three times.
When his classes at Vassar took up too much time—he actually stopped work on the 777 for two years because of college, Iaconi-Stewart dropped out. “I’m fortunate to have parents willing to give me a fair amount of latitude,” he says. Checkout the pictures from this ambitious project and the videos below.
