Full Scale Matchstick F1 Car

This cool F1 Mercedes McLaren F1 was created by Michael Arndt using 956,000 matchsticks over a span of 6 years. It also took 1686 tubes of glue and the whole thing costed around 6000 Euros. Patience is definitely a key factor and its amazing how intricate the details are to mimic that of the real F1 car.
11 more pics of the Matchstick F1 car after the jump.
Source: Jalopnik











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February 29th, 2008 at 10:18 pm
This creation is really awesome !
Somes congratulations for this guy, it is very nice !!!
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September 9th, 2011 at 9:34 pm
you have way too much time on your hands get a life!
November 5th, 2011 at 11:03 pm
How did you do this? this is awesome can you tell me how you got the scaling right as i would like to try this but with a different model