We now have seen gazillions of mods, upgrades and… downgrades for the Mercedes-Benz G-Class. We now have seen it carved in stone and in amber. However by no means have we thought we’d get to see a G fabricated from ice.
What we now have right here shouldn’t be new. However the group at Storage 54 has just lately uploaded the ‘making of’ video on their YouTube channel. And right here comes the G-Class fabricated from ice once more, driving and sounding like an actual automobile. Not like a G-Class although, as a result of this contraption began life on this world as a UAZ 469. It appears like a UAZ, but it surely’s not a UAZ anymore.
The Storage 54 group stripped off that car, simply preserving its chassis. They constructed a brand-new body with a boxier form to comply with the angular traces of the G-Wagen. And now they present the method step-by-step and disclose the small print of the construct.
Again in 2018, after they did it, they used at least ten tons of ice. Each single ice brick served for a function. They minimize and floor after which minimize some extra, placing items collectively like a puzzle. To place them collectively, the group injected water into the empty areas left between the ice blocks and easily let it freeze.
A brand new stage of chiseling adopted to make the ice appear like an actual G-Class as a lot as potential. The wheels are actual, no ice was concerned in that course of. So the automobile drives like an actual one. And it sounds identical to a UAZ truck. The ice-made mannequin sported what ought to be referred to as a backlit physique, since there have been LEDs beneath, altering colours.
What occurred with the Mercedes-Benz G-Class fabricated from ice 4 years in the past? As you’d anticipate, it melted. However as Olaf says in Frozen, “Some issues (‘individuals,’ he mentioned ‘individuals,’ we all know) are price melting for!”
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