this is absolutely amazing, utmost respect for your work. I can clearly see you have a passion and commitment for model airports, it really looks spectacular!
That Airport diorama looks epic, especially the TWA and PAN AM Terminals amazing! the aprons the whole concourse, some modern some old school, appreciate the old school clippers, keep up the good work mate.
WOW! What an incredible model airport this is! As someone who is working on building my very first proper model airpot, this is very inspirational! I am at the beginning of my aviation career having worked the ramp for one year, just got my ADX certification, and got hired at CommuteAir to an aircraft dispatcher.
Phenomenal work. I too as all watching am an airplane model enthusiast. Your JFK airport model is simply put off the chart. I remember growing up in Atlanta with Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport the huge Delta hub as well as a large hub for Eastern Airlines which was actually based out of Miami.
Thanks for your comments. JFK Airport was very unique and included a nice mix of aircraft types in the seventies. You might want to check out my other video of a TWA Flight Center install at the TWA Hotel.
Just saw your TWA diorama for the new terminal... Spot on! Great work..also visit your Kennedy here from time to time when I get stuck. I've built Houston Hobby as it was originally in the 60's and Houston Intercontinental in the 70's. my fifty vintage airliners now have homes....I have added runways into Hobby and the lighting inside the terminals and runways makes fantastic night views...I just wanted the airports the way I remembered them in their classic times...they have since been torn down and revitalized and look nothing like what I have made...thanks, Brian for the inspiration.
Hi Brian, Your airport is by far one of the best I've seen. Very realistic! What I enjoyed the most is seeing the vintage airliners in their "natural habitat" to quote you.
I plan to do this in the future with a 70’s, 90’s, & late 2000’s eras. Of course it’s all a dream and if it were to happen, it would be a long time away. Incredible airport, you put a lot of love into this! Have fun with it!
Thanks. I would encourage you to get started sooner rather than later. Once you see the structure coming together, it is exciting. You can start small and expand over time. Good luck.
Nice to see some classic model collections, classic aircraft don't get enough attention from model companies. Too many 737-800s and A320s these days haha
Loved your video. I have 1/200 scale model airliners.I am planning on building an airport setup but my challenge is that I can't find the space for it. So inspired by your video.
This actually brings back memories for me as I first arrived at the very terminal on a Iran Air 747-SP that shared the Pan Am terminal at JFK on January 18th 1978. It was starting to snow that late afternoon and by the time I left the airport there was almost a foot of snow on the ground. For the next 18 months, I would go there to pickup friends and family who were moving on to different parts of the country to get them to the TWA or other terminals as I lived in Long Island. I would always get there a couple of hours early, park on the rooftop deck and watch the planes. The best airport for plane spotting (of course of places I’ve lived) Thanks for this video
It's funny how those moments stick out for us. I remember my sister arriving from India on an Air India 747 and I was mesmerized by the red color and floodlights shining on the plane as it parked on the hardstand.
Thanks for your observation. I decided to feature a 10 year time period of 1971 through 1981. Based on my research and personal observations, every airliner featured did touch down at JFK at least once during that decade of time.
I love EVERYTHING about this video! Such an amazing project ! How long have you been working on this? Any plans for “how to” videos to dive deeper into materials, tools and techniques to try building a scale model airport?
Thanks for your comments and questions. I had the vision for a few years and when covid hit, I had some extra time. Took about two years to construct. I have thought about scheduling a you tube live event to answer questions about the build and model collection. Stay tuned.
My dad he came from Vietnam to Thailand, then Manila them the Pam am to JFK then more of family members came to US my dad the first family member to came in the US JFK airport and great work and I’m a collector of 1/400 myself as well and an aviation spotting and Great Work!
@@briankeene1468hello, I’m moving to Houston and luckily my room is massive so I can finally build a model airport. I’m thinking of recreating Boston Logan airport terminal c and e since when I first moved to the United States I came via Boston. I measured out the section I want to recreate of Boston Logan and it should be 5.6ft by 5.6ft.
@@Mo_Aviation Congratulations on the move to Houston. I lived there for several years and enjoyed it. Your dimensions sound about right. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about your vision.
@@briankeene1468 thanks, I’m pretty excited about the project and my vision is to include most of the t section part of terminal c and include at lest the old part of terminal E and I do wanna include the atc so I wanna shift the parking space a little bit to include the whole atc tower
Awesome work Brian! Truly inspiring stuff - the reproduction to scale is crazy good and what an era to pick - the Golden Age of Flight. Any plans on an updated version? Best, S
Me too! That was the best era to aircraft spot because the 747's had such great liveries and size. I'm not exaggerating the number that could be on the ground at one time!
I love it ... am in the process of recreating Houston International *later Houston Hobby as it was in the 50's 60' early 70's I have got all my custom terminals done and they look just like the vintage airport... this is off the beat a question... Where did you get the 1/400 cars for the parking lots.. I have one parking lot I need to dress up with a few. I can't find them. I'll paint them..I just need a model. Any ideas? I am going to light mine up.. I will have runways Your airport is fantastic....
Thanks for your question Rex- I have found 1:400 vehicles on ebay. Some are unpainted and others customized. Most of my vehicles were raw metal. I handpainted them and affixed them to the display.
They are hard to find...I found some from a guy that makes 3D printing...and some were colored and others white and had to paint. I can put site address if interested... my message: when you find some get them...to keep thinking you will see more....you won't. ha ha ......
I also got the diecast bug around 1998. I grew up in Canarsie in the shadow of JFK. My collection soon reached (1/500) 100 models and I decided to build a diorama to display them. I am not very good at details but i did manage to put something together. To my wife's constant question: How large is this thing going to be? Well at 250 models it consumed my entire family room. I dismantled my diorama 2 years ago and the models are back in their boxes.
That's fantastic! I'd love to see pictures of your diorama. I can fully understand the size and scope. This display of 9 terminals took up 20ft X 20 ft of space in my dining room!
@@briankeene1468 My diorama was a fantasy Airport (Somerset Int'l). The diorama had 3 runways, 2 Hangers, 2 Cargo Terminals & 5 Passenger Terminals (150 Gates & Hard stands). Not sure how to get pictures to you. Email? Facebook?
Very nice and brings back great memories. What brand of model are the Pan Am 747s and the Varig 747? Also would you consider making a 1980s Miami Airport including the Eastern terminals?
Thanks for your comments. The PA 747's are primarily Geminjets and the SP's are NG. I've thought about Miami. Currently researching Heathrow. I'm partial to a lot of 747's!
My "airport" looks like an, idk potatoe one... Well next try! Edit: I'm out of recourses great... After school im gonna buy some stuff, how much do you thing is one terminal with like,... 5 gates?
Yes indeed. I brought the entire 9 terminals. The PA Worldport now resides in the Cradle of Aviation Museum and the TW Flight Center is on display at the TWA Hotel at JFK.
@@briankeene1468 I thought so! what a magnificent piece of work and an honor to have seen it in person! Ill miss it at EWR show in a few weeks from now..
This is absolutely the best 1/400 airport I’ve seen! This era in aviation was so special.
This model airport IS HEAVEN
this is absolutely amazing, utmost respect for your work. I can clearly see you have a passion and commitment for model airports, it really looks spectacular!
Thank you. It was fun to create a memory that steered me towards an aviation career.
That Airport diorama looks epic, especially the TWA and PAN AM Terminals amazing! the aprons the whole concourse, some modern some old school, appreciate the old school clippers, keep up the good work mate.
WOW! What an incredible model airport this is! As someone who is working on building my very first proper model airpot, this is very inspirational! I am at the beginning of my aviation career having worked the ramp for one year, just got my ADX certification, and got hired at CommuteAir to an aircraft dispatcher.
Have fun!
Wow! So underrated!
Glad you think so!
Phenomenal work. I too as all watching am an airplane model enthusiast. Your JFK airport model is simply put off the chart. I remember growing up in Atlanta with Atlanta’s Hartsfield International Airport the huge Delta hub as well as a large hub for Eastern Airlines which was actually based out of Miami.
Thanks for your comments. JFK Airport was very unique and included a nice mix of aircraft types in the seventies. You might want to check out my other video of a TWA Flight Center install at the TWA Hotel.
What an outstanding airport. So beautiful. Wonderful work
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it.
Just saw your TWA diorama for the new terminal... Spot on! Great work..also visit your Kennedy here from time to time when I get stuck. I've built Houston Hobby as it was originally in the 60's and Houston Intercontinental in the 70's. my fifty vintage airliners now have homes....I have added runways into Hobby and the lighting inside the terminals and runways makes fantastic night views...I just wanted the airports the way I remembered them in their classic times...they have since been torn down and revitalized and look nothing like what I have made...thanks, Brian for the inspiration.
Thanks for your encouragement. Would love to see photos of your IAH.
😳 wow that’s bigger than my model airport
Thanks. How big is your airport diorama?
The editing behind this is amazing
Thank you. We worked hard at it!
Thank you for creating that incredible replica! Good for you!
Thank you too!
Thanks for inspire me and i just build my dream Airport and i have 8 planes and they are 1/500 scale and i love them. Love from Finland🇫🇮
Best of luck!
Hi Brian,
Your airport is by far one of the best I've seen. Very realistic! What I enjoyed the most is seeing the vintage airliners in their "natural habitat" to quote you.
Appreciate your comments. It truly gave me a legitimate reason to collect some of the most memorable aircraft i remember from my youth in the '70's!
Wow! What an awesome video and a beautiful airport! Just absolutely, insanely well made! Keep up the great work, Brian! :D
Thank you!
You should do a full model collection!! :)
Thanks . Do you mean a review of each of the models?
Wow! So detailed! This is beautiful! Definitely brings back memories.
Yes it does!
Beautiful !! Thank you
Thank you too!
Incredible work! Absolutely fantastic!
Thanks!
Great work
I plan to do this in the future with a 70’s, 90’s, & late 2000’s eras. Of course it’s all a dream and if it were to happen, it would be a long time away.
Incredible airport, you put a lot of love into this! Have fun with it!
Thanks. I would encourage you to get started sooner rather than later. Once you see the structure coming together, it is exciting. You can start small and expand over time. Good luck.
This is the most incredible things I've ever seen. I worked here in the late 70's and its an exact replica !!! Amazing !!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Nice to see some classic model collections, classic aircraft don't get enough attention from model companies. Too many 737-800s and A320s these days haha
Yes. 747's make the best billboard for any airline. Plus they look so much cooler than garden variety narrowbodies.
@@briankeene1468 Oh, for me... it's the 727... that beauty tells classic times and the DC-8 but 727, she steals my heart.
Loved your video. I have 1/200 scale model airliners.I am planning on building an airport setup but my challenge is that I can't find the space for it. So inspired by your video.
Glad I could inspire you. 1:200 is a grand scale. Lots of detail can be created. Challenge is that you need a lot of space.
This actually brings back memories for me as I first arrived at the very terminal on a Iran Air 747-SP that shared the Pan Am terminal at JFK on January 18th 1978. It was starting to snow that late afternoon and by the time I left the airport there was almost a foot of snow on the ground.
For the next 18 months, I would go there to pickup friends and family who were moving on to different parts of the country to get them to the TWA or other terminals as I lived in Long Island. I would always get there a couple of hours early, park on the rooftop deck and watch the planes. The best airport for plane spotting (of course of places I’ve lived)
Thanks for this video
It's funny how those moments stick out for us. I remember my sister arriving from India on an Air India 747 and I was mesmerized by the red color and floodlights shining on the plane as it parked on the hardstand.
Amazing work, those terminals must’ve been difficult to build. It’s great to see a 1:400 airport from such a cool time period
Yes it was!
Amazing! Nice job Brian! I have my own model airport, but it’s nothing compared to this!
That's awesome! Share some pics.
Wow man that is beautiful. Thank you.
Glad you like it!
I am inspired officialy!
Just stunning. Pure stunning. Just like I remember JFK in that era.
Thank you!
This is fantastic!
Thank you!
some liveries doesn´t match in time but it doesn´t spoil this wonderful job
Thanks for your observation. I decided to feature a 10 year time period of 1971 through 1981. Based on my research and personal observations, every airliner featured did touch down at JFK at least once during that decade of time.
@@briankeene1468 just miss the eau de kerosin
Your a genius and your underrated keep the amazing work
Ha. Never much for ratings. Just enjoying creating a cool airport.
@@briankeene1468 Ya It's pretty fun enjoy your hobby man, Much Love!
you did a great job on this.
Thank you!
Awesome
I love EVERYTHING about this video! Such an amazing project ! How long have you been working on this? Any plans for “how to” videos to dive deeper into materials, tools and techniques to try building a scale model airport?
Thanks for your comments and questions. I had the vision for a few years and when covid hit, I had some extra time. Took about two years to construct. I have thought about scheduling a you tube live event to answer questions about the build and model collection. Stay tuned.
Very nice work, Brian. Still waiting for the chapels.
We'll have to sacrifice circulation if i built that monster parking lot and chapels.
My dad he came from Vietnam to Thailand, then Manila them the Pam am to JFK then more of family members came to US my dad the first family member to came in the US JFK airport and great work and I’m a collector of 1/400 myself as well and an aviation spotting and Great Work!
Thank you Anthony- Hopefully this effort will inspire the next generation of collectors and builders.
Muito obrigado por lembrar da nossa querida Varig representada através do Boeing 747 PP-VNB, felicidades sempre.
Yes. She was a hard model to come by but JFK wouldn’t be the same without her.
Cool
I saw the pan am section you made in the cradle of aviation museum today! You are so talented
That's awesome. Glad you liked it.
This is incredible, you really inspired me to build a model airport, I wish I had the space for it tho maybe someday
This airport can be broken down into lightweight foam boards that are 3 x 4 feet and easily storable in a standard closet.
@@briankeene1468 true I do have a large storage area
@@briankeene1468hello, I’m moving to Houston and luckily my room is massive so I can finally build a model airport. I’m thinking of recreating Boston Logan airport terminal c and e since when I first moved to the United States I came via Boston. I measured out the section I want to recreate of Boston Logan and it should be 5.6ft by 5.6ft.
@@Mo_Aviation Congratulations on the move to Houston. I lived there for several years and enjoyed it. Your dimensions sound about right. Feel free to reach out if you want to chat about your vision.
@@briankeene1468 thanks, I’m pretty excited about the project and my vision is to include most of the t section part of terminal c and include at lest the old part of terminal E and I do wanna include the atc so I wanna shift the parking space a little bit to include the whole atc tower
Nice video got a link to your channel on discord beautiful airport subscribed wish you great success 👍
Much appreciated!
As always I just love your talent and I think you’re very blessed
Thank you so much!
@@briankeene1468 - Are going the the Newark show, cause I’m really going to try and make it there this year.
@@mgraham8411 Yes Sir. Hope to see you there!
Wow!
Thanks!
You need to make more videos about the airport! Congrats on the hard work!
Thanks. I have a couple of additional videos including this one:ua-cam.com/video/Q9DEIWOKCIA/v-deo.html
Here is another video on JFK ua-cam.com/video/Mz2A_C6Oc2Q/v-deo.html
Awesome work Brian! Truly inspiring stuff - the reproduction to scale is crazy good and what an era to pick - the Golden Age of Flight. Any plans on an updated version? Best, S
Glad you enjoyed it! This was my favorite era. Although i could do the 90's and 200's as well.
@@briankeene1468 Also how did you get the old liveries? So, I can do Paris Charles de Gaulle in the 2000s.
😮 OMG this is my dream nice job I love all the 747’s
Me too! That was the best era to aircraft spot because the 747's had such great liveries and size. I'm not exaggerating the number that could be on the ground at one time!
Brian, there just are no words...
Thanks Jorge. Appreciate your encouragement.
i love it😁❤
Thank you!
I love it ... am in the process of recreating Houston International *later Houston Hobby as it was in the 50's 60' early 70's I have got all my custom terminals done and they look just like the vintage airport... this is off the beat a question... Where did you get the 1/400 cars for the parking lots.. I have one parking lot I need to dress up with a few. I can't find them. I'll paint them..I just need a model. Any ideas? I am going to light mine up.. I will have runways Your airport is fantastic....
Thanks for your question Rex- I have found 1:400 vehicles on ebay. Some are unpainted and others customized. Most of my vehicles were raw metal. I handpainted them and affixed them to the display.
Amazing airport! Where did you get the tiny colored cars on the parking garage?
Some I bought from Shapeways. They were unpainted, so had to paint them. Others I bought from a friend whose wife hand painted them.
They are hard to find...I found some from a guy that makes 3D printing...and some were colored and others white and had to paint. I can put site address if interested... my message: when you find some get them...to keep thinking you will see more....you won't. ha ha ......
I also got the diecast bug around 1998. I grew up in Canarsie in the shadow of JFK. My collection soon reached (1/500) 100 models and I decided to build a diorama to display them. I am not very good at details but i did manage to put something together. To my wife's constant question: How large is this thing going to be? Well at 250 models it consumed my entire family room. I dismantled my diorama 2 years ago and the models are back in their boxes.
That's fantastic! I'd love to see pictures of your diorama. I can fully understand the size and scope. This display of 9 terminals took up 20ft X 20 ft of space in my dining room!
@@briankeene1468 My diorama was a fantasy Airport (Somerset Int'l). The diorama had 3 runways, 2 Hangers, 2 Cargo Terminals & 5 Passenger Terminals (150 Gates & Hard stands). Not sure how to get pictures to you. Email? Facebook?
Sure. FB Messenger or email. brian.keene21@gmail.com
Very nice and brings back great memories. What brand of model are the Pan Am 747s and the Varig 747? Also would you consider making a 1980s Miami Airport including the Eastern terminals?
Thanks for your comments. The PA 747's are primarily Geminjets and the SP's are NG. I've thought about Miami. Currently researching Heathrow. I'm partial to a lot of 747's!
Oh and the RG 747 is Aeroclassics.
Woah… how did you do this.. this must have took a lot of time!
Thanks. It took about two years to build. Not done yet- started work on the North Cargo area and hangars as they appeared in the '70's.
To be honest i do like it so much but one quesion
How did you manage to do that in the 0:58 shot, the one with the open side door
I used a thin piece of photo paper cut to size of the SCD, hand painted, and affixed with a glue stick adhesive.
Where can you get the airplanes do you get them online or you have to get from the store?
Primarily purchased on eBay and airline collectible shows.
My "airport" looks like an, idk potatoe one... Well next try!
Edit: I'm out of recourses great...
After school im gonna buy some stuff, how much do you thing is one terminal with like,... 5 gates?
Where did you get civilian cars at this scale at I have been looking by for some forever
Primarily through Ebay. Check JetX 1:400 cars. Also- a website called Shapeways. They have 3D printed vehicles.
did you take this to the Newark show last year?
Yes indeed. I brought the entire 9 terminals. The PA Worldport now resides in the Cradle of Aviation Museum and the TW Flight Center is on display at the TWA Hotel at JFK.
@@briankeene1468 I thought so! what a magnificent piece of work and an honor to have seen it in person! Ill miss it at EWR show in a few weeks from now..
How do you only have 10 subs?
63 now
I believe we have over 100 now.
@@briankeene1468 damn you grew fast keep up the good work
No need for the parking lots, just the chapels.
Haha. We'll see.
Where do u get all the cars and helicopters
I bought them on ebay and handpainted some that were 3D printed. Try the website Shapeways.
When will you make more videos?
I have another you tube video entitled “Aerial Tour of JFK Airport”. Check it out!
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you should sell it
Hard to gauge its worth. What do you think?
@@briankeene1468 for all of it about $600 not including the airplanes
@@747andstuf Add a zero and I think you're in the ballpark. :)
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