1:1 Merc' 'Woodie'

Much as I love Tony's Mercury Woodies, I keep getting disappointed as the Brit's use 'Merc' ' as shorthand for Mercedes-Benz and hence I keep thinking I'll find a Woodie Mercedes. So I decided to google and I found this..........

Indonesian Company Builds Wooden Mercedes Car Sculptures. (Extract from Cameron Vanderhorst - November 9, 2017)

Afianto and his associates run Detailed Craft, an Indonesian firm that specializes in wooden sculpture. Their main specialty is full-scale wooden replicas of cars and motorcycles, including this 300SL Gullwing.

If you’ve ever tried to mold clay to a shape, you understand how difficult it is to create something that resembles what you have in mind. Wood is even more resilient and less forgiving, requiring the steady hand and eye for detail only a true artisan possesses.  Focused less on absolutely perfect replicas, it seems that Afianto instead intends to capture the true spirit of a car’s shape by subtly exaggerating some proportions awhile slightly downplaying others. It’s a distinction that most would not even notice unless the real car and the model were beside each other.

The end result is a model that looks exactly like the car it’s replicating, but with more soul and passion. In both the literal and figurative sense, the form is inherently organic in nature.