Making of Magic Garage

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• AN

  @andrewjenery1783 · 1 year ago

  One of the cleverest optical illusions I've ever seen.

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• JA

  @JameisonAus_YouTube · 1 year ago

  The “my garage is bigger than yours” is a great comedic touch

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• KJ

  @kjamison5951 · 3 years ago

  That’s not a garage… it’s a Tardis with the chameleon circuit stick on the garage setting… what a superb build! Thank you!

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• HU

  @husbandbulge · 3 years ago

  Spectacular. Not a model-maker by any stretch, and was wonderfully baffled by the simplicity of the optical illusion.

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• EW

  @ewoodrailway · 3 years ago

  The placing of trees and foiliage can hide any major discrepancies…we’ve all used this in model building I’m sure. Great video, great use of magnorail.

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• PL

  @plixplop · 3 years ago

  Mirrors are the most useful tool for illusions! This is very clever and even more technical than I expected.

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• CA

  @carmium · 1 year ago

  I had a scrap of front-silvered mirror from the shop I worked at. I was making an NTrak module with my friend and was using a &quot;concrete&quot; road bridge at an angle at the right edge, to disguise the transition to the next module. The mirror was cut to a perfect fit between the underside of the bridge and the water below, and did a great job of suggesting that the water and the river&apos;s edge walkway continued into the distance. &nbsp;<br>On the debut of the modules at the annual train show, we were placed at a corner, and an acquaintance of several years came up to admire our &quot;Gooseneck Channel&quot; module and its features. &quot;Oh! It continues around the corner!&quot; he gushed. He stepped around to see an entirely different scene: &quot;Huh?&quot; He stepped back, looked under the bridge, then around the corner again. His mouth made silent fish-like motions. I explained that a front-silvered mirror was under the bridge, and the penny slowly dropped. Definitely worth the effort, and not the first puzzled face we saw that day!

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• AL

  @Alton_Towers_Resort_Roblox · 3 years ago

  Surely some else saw the Alton towers refrences

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• SP

  @sperrygeo · 8 hours ago

  Very nice step by step instructions, and what a result! Thank you for your video.

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• GR

  @graydeath1 · 3 years ago

  That&apos;s really clever, just proves that magic and mirrors really are the same thing! &nbsp;For me the least convincing part of the model was at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-RKCq1HClA&amp;t=518">8:38</a>, I don&apos;t think Shell has ever sold petrol that cheap 😅

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• AC

  @acjdf · 1 year ago

  Wallace explains things to Gromit

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• ST

  @stevecarter8810 · 3 years ago

  Great stuff. As far as I know when magicians do this it&apos;s always covered on top, e.g. use it under a table, so the mirrors only reflect floor and wall elements. It looks like you gravitated to that with tree cover. Well done, tricky to pull off but it works

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