This amazing and eery model shows what the infamous Chernobyl reactor 4 looked like after the worlds biggest nuclear accident.
physical cutaway models
These days most cutaways are computer rendered. Here are some physical cutaways that fascinate us as much as when travel stores had elaborate cutaway models of passenger jets.
The most amazing is a model of Chernobyl reactor core 4, accurately depicting its ruined state after the disaster.
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The nice thing about cutaway models of fictional items is that they demonstrate the imagination of the model maker. This is a perfect example.
Damian Hirsts cutaway statue of a pregnant woman stands outside the Lever building n mid town Manhattan.<p /><p />An hilariously corporate location for a provocative piece. In the foyer is another massive Hirst installation.
One of the best known cutaway models in history showing a longitudinal section through the Garnier Opera house in Paris.<p /><p />The model shows how tiny an actual opera theater is compared to the back stage machinery and front stage refinery. The Garniers entrance staircase alone, is bigger than the auditorium.<p /><p />The main Paris Opera moved to a second rate Richard Meier look-alike building in the Bastille in the early nineties.<p />
This cutaway of the original mini is a perfect longitudinal splice through the car, windows body and engine. All that is left is the chassis and wheels. allowing the remainder to stand up, intact.
The Tokyo transportation museum which is moving to a new location, had two full sized steam locomotives with cutaways showing their mechanisms.
The Cutaway PBY project restored a 1942 Patrol Bomber Seaplane for Display in the National Museum of Naval Aviation.
The Ignalina RBMK is possibly the worlds largest nuclear power plant, producing three quarters of Lithuanias electricity.
While the VLCC Tochal was rounding South Africas cape, it was hit by heavy seas which removed part of the bow, revealing the internal structure like a giant cutaway model.
This is a cutaway mockup of a 19th century space capsule., imagined by Jules Verne. Possibly the pinnacle of steampunk engineering, the idea was that this craft would literally be shot into space by a cannon, making it a velvet lined ballistic shell.
