Watch a true artist at work as a beautifully detailed Dodge M37 radio-control truck is planned and built. We promise you’ll be impressed. 

This video is both mesmerizing and exasperating to watch. Here we see a beautiful and highly detailed radio-control model built entirely from scratch—a lengthy and daunting task, make no mistake. But due to the skill and ingenuity of the builder, the process looks simple and easy, like any of us could do it. Yeah, right.

The Dodge M-37 was a 3/4-ton, 4×4 utility vehicle produced for the U.S. military from 1951 to 1968, and the model builder, who works under the web handle Headquake, has produced an extremely authentic scale version, right down to some very convincing simulated rust and weathering.

Headquake says the build took 60 hours, which was compressed to three hours of camera footage, which was then edited down to this 17-minute video. But exquisite as it is, this is no shelf model. When the M37 is completed, it’s taken for a test drive in the snow. Wonderful fun, watch.