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Last day! Panic time! Reader painey sends long this:
My model plane is created from a 50pence piece, which is hammered flat, bent into shape and filed down. My grandfather used to make these all the time and thats how I learnt.
Amazing! Hit the jump for a shot of the plane's underbelly. For those thinking of entering, lemme bring ya up to speed: Dress up as an airplane OR make a three dimensional airplane out of anything tangible, but paper. So you can't make CGI planes! And you can't draw them either! But, you can make them out of anything else as long as it's not paper. Rocks, clay, toothpicks, whatever! And remember, that means make and not build a plastic plane model you bought in the store. Send entries to kotakucontestATgmailDOTcom by this Friday at midnight PST and, like all contests, don't forget to add a "Kotaku" sign. Remember, we're giving away two copies of Ace Comabt 6 and INTERNET FAME. One copy for the best plane cosplay, the other for the best crafted plane. In short, two separate contests.
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That's some amazing shit right there. It must take a lot of patience or boredom to make one of those...
Wow. Pretty impressive if you think about it.
Isn't it illegal to deface money?
Pretty cool though.
Nice... I wish I could do this...
Treason!
Now if I actually liked the Royal family in any way I'd have thee hanged but I don't so do whatever you want
Oi that is very nice indeed!
Reminds me of those old school monopoly pieces.
My model plane is created from a 50pence piece
Woah. Damn. Mind? Blown.
This is awesome.
I was wondering if this was illegal too...
but it's awesome!
@ChiZ_MacT: You'd think so, except there are a bunch of tourist machines at tourist attractions that allow you to press your pennies into mementos of your visit.
Meh. I could do better...
/no not really. that's too cool.
@ChiZ_MacT: Nobody really cares about that anymore.
yea,
ITS ILLEAGEL IN BRITAIN!!!!!!11!111
*gasp*
*rings up the ol' bill*
taking money out of circulation too... dundundun....
Good job! I'm thoroughly impressed!
We have a winner!
@Witzbold: @Sofox:
i just got pwnt, ammirite?
:3
@Dannon: The 50p coin doesn't have the queen's image on it so deface away!
Wow,that is neat.I would never have the patience for something like that.
Winrar. This dude gets my vote.
@JontyUP: Yes it does!
@Sofox:
That's actually not true. Those machines don't actually flatten coins. It's an illusion. The coin slips through a hole and it instead drops out a piece of metal that looks like a flattened penny/pence/dime whatever. I saw a thing on tv about gimmicks like that.
That's amazing - I'd love know how to do that.
Apparently it's also illegal in the UK to stick a stamp on an envelope upside-down, as the queens head is on it. However, my dad's been trying to get in trouble for it by doing it to every stamp he uses for about 30 years, and he hasn't got in trouble once.
Looks like he might have to try smuggling a grey squirrel into the Isle of Whight...
Amazing!
Wow! I'd buy one. Or ten!
@Spadgy:
He's doing it wrong, it's actually illegal to stick an envelope upside-down onto a stamp. It's a common mistake.
If it's illegal that just makes it even more bad-ass!
winnah. we have so many artists in our little Kotaku-Community, it's sickening!
This should win!
This is really good and showing good craftmanship
i will go for the carrot plane though. it was the first to impress me
This is fantastic. Need instructions.
I wish I knew how to do that. Guess I'll just change up a load of money. Gonna be just like the scene from Liar liar "It's a goose!" :(
Congradulations! You're winner!
Wow thats incredible, great craftsmanship!
that is friggin impressive.....
@Mr.Waffleton: Perhaps some of those coin-crushing machines are a scam (no, wait ... all of them are), but I know for a fact that at least some of them actually crush your penny. I've seen ones that have a transparent front panel and let you watch the coin go through and be smashed.
This needs a "making of" video to make me believe.
In the US, defacing coinage is only illegal when done with fraudulent intent. So something like this would be perfectly fine as you aren't trying to defraud anyone with it. That having been said, I have no idea what the UK laws are regarding the matter.
Gorgeous. Care to do an instructable so we can learn to make these?
I think someone needs to make a Spruce Moose with a little crazy Mr.Burns model.
Well done! This is illegal!
my one question is how???
Wow... that's really cool. He's got my vote.
@brieeyeball:
I've also seen it in action. And you can also really tell by using a Canadian penny too. You'll still see an after image of the design beneath whatever it stamps. You'll see that sometimes with an American penny too.
Good stuff. The most impressive one by far.
@Mr.Waffleton: Oh they do. The one at my work jammed again. Some idiot put through a 5p instead of a penny and the machine took a hissy fit.
shouldn't it be one for best cosplane?
@ChiZ_MacT:
It depends on whose currency you're defacing and where you are when you're defacing it. In the US, they limit it to stuff like clipping the edges of coins (i.e. removing metal to be resold as scrap while still presenting the coins at full face value). Penny-smashers, on the other hand, are perfectly legal because you don't have a reduced-weight penny left to spend afterwards. Now, putting them on railroad tracks is probably illegal on the basis that putting _anything_ on railroad tracks is probably illegal. You know, trains derailing and such.
@hawkerm:
It shows up much better on the reverse side, and you can also tell by checking which way your penny is facing (heads or tails) when you put it in the machine against which image appears on the reverse side of the smashed penny. Now, if you go to a country like Japan, which has no penny-equivalent coin (similar size, primarily copper content, etc.), I've been told you don't have to provide the coin to smash as it'll feed in a copper slug for you.
Wouldn't it have been ironic if he modeled the plane after the Eurofighter?
(currency jokes)
amazing craft!
Wins for British.
I'm torn. This is really cool, but it's wasn't made specifically for this contest. I mean maybe this specific one was made for the contest, but it's an established "craft".
It's just some trade that he picked up from his family - and that's cool and all, but I'd rather see something totally original to the contest.
E.g. ever see those biplanes that people make out of coke cans? Those are really, but if someone posted one I wouldn't vote for it, because is wasn't really made for the contest.
Plus Ace Combat is jets, not WWII fighters. So far, the carrot jet or even the B2 from boxes gets my vote, I don't think that were established crafts ;)
@brieeyeball: Yep, they do use the actual coin. Some of them you even turn yourself with a wheel and you see yourself squashing it between the two rollers. Think it was one at blackpool tower that I saw that on. Remember one at the old wembley too, think that was electronic though. Remember asking the cashier for shiny coins :D
That's awesome, even better than the popsicle plane.
Well, there goes my hopes of winning. (mine was the popsicle plane)I've been completely outclassed in miniature plane-making.
Give him the win, but only if he posts instructions. This is great! I wanna know how!
For those far too interested the law states
No person shall, except under the authority of a licence granted by the Treasury, melt down or break up any metal coin which is for the time being current in the United Kingdom or which, having been current there, has at any time after 16th May 1969 ceased to be so.
They took out the being killed bit that they had in the middle ages.
But since almost every school child is guilt of this I'm not sure anyones taking any action :)
The planes pretty cool, how about some instructions?
@peewee27:
Whoops, right, forgot about that. Yes, there is a very clear difference between the smashed penny you get from a shiny penny, and the one you get from one that's all brown with age. Also, some people prefer old pennies because they don't stretch as much, so you get a shorter tail that matches the gripped edge better. If you compare the dates of your pennies with the changes in penny metal content, you can see distinct differences in the shape of the tails.
Wooooow... that's surely amazing!
Congrats there! I'm really impressed!
(as if i didn't sound i was in my first sentence)
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