I completely agree with you . That ' s why it pains me . Because I don ' t think a small scale model is even close to the reality proposal of the Venus project . Short of taking it to another planet to have a perfect example of Here , look what we could do if you let us then a scaled model isn ' t going to be the same scale for all resources . We couldn ' t build it in England out of Norways wood or in the USA without some other important imported material . Maybe we could scale it by using a continental model . But that ' s only just more likely than the global option . As I said . Single biggest hurdle to humanity . <| sep |> It has a fully custom drivetrain , and sitting on 285 drag radials . She drives , and holy moly is she fun .