--- description: Brooklyn artist Fred Kahl recreates a remarkable scale model of Coney Island's legendary 'Luna Park' using a desktop 3-D printer. title: Check Out This Detailed Scale Model of Coney Island 100 Years Ago Created with a 3-D Printer image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba850d7e26cefd14/698690cc810bbb410bc91bd0/screen-shot-2014-05-24-at-3-16.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch: Historic Coney Island Recreated Using a 3-D Printer by [Randy Stearns](/author/randy-w-stearns/) ## Randy Stearns Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 23, 2014 4:31 PM CUT  by [Randy Stearns](/author/randy-w-stearns/) ## Randy Stearns Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close May 23, 2014 4:31 PM CUT “More remains of ancient Rome than of turn-of-the-century Coney Island,” says Brooklyn artist [Fred Kahl](http://thegreatfredini.com "undefined"), explaining why he chose to create a detailed scale model of an amusement park from 100 years ago. “This is … about a deep love of Coney Island as the cultural melting pot and showcase for presenting cutting-edge technology as entertainment.” The result of his passion is the world’s largest-ever 3-D printed art installation. It fills an entire gallery at the [Coney Island Museum](http://www.coneyisland.com/programs/coney-island-museum/ "undefined"), which reopens Memorial Day Weekend after being shuttered since October 2012 to repair damage from Hurricane Sandy. Kahl began working with 3-D printing a few years ago. He created his own open-source hardware for making full-body scans using an Xbox Kinect game controller to capture 3-D images of his subjects. He raised over $16,000 via Kickstarter to get the Coney Island project started in 2013; a year later, he has assembled hundreds of 3-D prints and produced over an estimated 10,000 hours of print time for the installation dubbed, “Thompson & Dundy’s Luna Park: 3-D Printed by the Great Fredini.” The video above was produced by filmmaker Ronni Thomas, creator of [The Midnight Archive](http://www.themidnightarchive.com/newsite/ "undefined") web-video series. He says he was drawn to make “Printing History,” as a fellow artist and borough-mate of Kahl’s: “As a born and raised Brooklynite,” Thomas says, “Coney Island has long been a beacon for the peculiar and the other-wordly obsessions i’ve held since my very first childhood memories.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/110416/coney-island-3d-printer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/110416/coney-island-3d-printer/"},"headline":"Watch: Historic Coney Island Recreated Using a 3-D Printer","datePublished":"2014-05-23T16:31:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:02:19.350Z","description":"Scale model details the fantastic Luna Park from a century past","url":"https://time.com/110416/coney-island-3d-printer/","keywords":["Tech","History","New York","Memorial Day","coney island"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba850d7e26cefd14/698690cc810bbb410bc91bd0/screen-shot-2014-05-24-at-3-16.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Randy Stearns","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/randy-w-stearns/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltba850d7e26cefd14/698690cc810bbb410bc91bd0/screen-shot-2014-05-24-at-3-16.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen-Shot-2014-05-24-at-3.16","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/110416/coney-island-3d-printer/","name":"Watch: Historic Coney Island Recreated Using a 3-D Printer"}}]}] ```