Video: Oil rig of 4 million matches
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
A 51-year-old man from Southampton spent 15 years of his life working on a model of an oil rig he built from four million hand-polished matches. Master David Reynolds hopes that his name will soon appear in the Guinness Book of Records, and this will be a true recognition of his dedication to work.
A former oil rig worker has created a scaled-down replica of an oil platform in the North Sea from over 4 million matches. David Reynolds worked 10 hours a day every day, making his "match" masterpiece, which weighs almost half a ton. Each piece of wood of the match was polished separately, and then glue it all together, later growing into a masterpiece 21 feet long and 12 feet high.
The tower model is so huge that it had to be built in parts, in stages. The construction was carried out in the living room and the greenhouse, and parts of this entire structure were preserved in the attic or in the garage. The finished model is 14 sections long, so large it took two trucks to transport it to the Bursledon Brickworks Museum in Southampton, where it was already constructed into a one-piece oil platform sculpture.
David Reynolds, who is already retired, hopes to find a place for him in the Guinness Book of Records for the work he has done, and is awaiting confirmation. Currently, a record is recorded for a model built of 3.5 million matches, and David's design consists of 4, which is 500 thousand more. The former oil rig maintenance technician used every free minute, working even at night, to create his model. Everything is reproduced by the artist to the smallest detail, including the living quarters for the tower workers, the fleet of ships and the platform from the towers.
David bought matches from a wholesaler because if he bought them in a store he would have spent £ 46,000, which would have cost him only £ 1,600.
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