Big John

Thanks for the info Alan, One of my long lost projects is a Marmon Wasp and since i want it to appear as raced in 1911 I don't want to use the splash pan that is presently installed on the car today. I have pretty extensive research but the most mysterious parts are the bottom of the crank case and the clutch. These are the best I have for the clutch and an old section view for a manual.

Hi Frank, Just found your WIP for the Locomobile. I've enjoyed see you and the Old 16 at NNL this past decade. Missed this year but wanted to pick you brain about 'Cone Clutches' particularly for the Marmon wasp project. Hope the 41 made it through the fires. Look forward to seeing you and the stable at next years NNL!

An option to black wash in your panel lines would be to mix a much darker tone of your body color and apply that to your panel lines. When you look at a 1:1 car you aren't seeing black, unless it is the rubber gasket, you are seeing the body color in shadow.

Thanks for the Toon James, Great detail, Totally Big Daddy inspired! Study hall... A great place to study your artwork, and you have to work with what you got for supplies. My old notebook a case in point. Times do change as do our sensibilities, thanks for making the point. Many things in our past are cringeworthy today. Maybe now you can print this one out and color it in?

Just around the corner by our local Fire Station

Way back in the days of Yore (the 60s mostly0 I used to wait in Great Anticipation for the newest edition of CARtoons magazine! I'd pore over the pages of art until the covers were falling off... I still have a couple of my old issues even today, and that is where I got my Icon Temple Mc Flathead. Today I have the tools to make create my own funnies so I said to myself... Self, Let's see what my fellow CAR toonists can come up with. So come along and show us what vehicle funnies make you chortle or LOL, in today's vernacular. Below is my first submission hot off the pixel pounder. Enjoy! Join in!

Road grime and wooden rub strips... Brilliant!

Hay Mike no explanation needed here but you might want to talk to Mr. Hesketh Racing about a 1:1 copy of your cosworth. That new Pocher Lotus looks amazing, but then it should for roughly $1,000 US. Wondering how their DFV stacks up to your wonderful work here. Good to hear from you anytime. J

INTENSE! great idea checking off your progress on the instructions as you go. Beautiful workmanship.

What a cool adventure. Love the old door-mobiles, it was my dream car back in the 60s, not mine, the 1960. Check out Dick Blick art supplies for transfer letters or model railroad shops.

1/6th, now that's an impressive scale. Fraught with detailing possibilities. Yes Morgan 3 wheel with Matchless water cooled.

1/6th, now that's an impressive scale. Fraught with detailing possibilities. Yes Morgan 3 wheel with Matchless water cooled.

1/6th, now that's an impressive scale. Fraught with detailing possibilities. Yes Morgan 3 wheel with Matchless water cooled.

Oh... I get it this is really a real car and you just want us to think you're building a model! HB My old home town, changed so much since I left in the 80s. Looking forward to the 1:16 build. After you finish this one. RBF... Classic!

A 1:1 you might as well have the pars sintered,SLS, maybe in their appropriate materials? Wonder what the Mad Man is up to now?

keeping the floor clean is essential to finding those small parts when they fall on the floor, that and a good flash light. Each decade brings it's own challenges.

Fantastic build, wonderful job on the weathering it really brings out the details. I especially like the extremely detailed clutch mechanism!

When Big Daddy started his Choppers magazine he had articles on down and dirty rat choppers. This one would be a prefect candidate for an article. Love the oil drip pan!

True Passion on display!

Thanks for the first look at a build of this kit. great detailing and weathering! I will look forward to seeing how they approach the front axle since it doesn't appear that the springs sleeve through the axle.

"I love it when a plan comes together"

The two 1:1 cars were both shot with my little cannon powershot. I don’t recall if I used the zoom on the green car or not. I think that really the key to realistic looking model photos is the depth of field (focus) by using the largest f-stop that the light and shutter speed will allow. This was brought home to me the other day when I saw a photo of a real 1:1 car in which both the back and front of the car were out of focus. My first reaction was that this was a really clean model build but the details were just too fine. I have also seen some intro shots of moving freeway traffic, for a news show, where the only sharp focus was on the cars moving in the center of the shot and the surrounding show had a progressive blur. Again my first thought was ‘This is a really cool HO scale model with moving roadway. So I believe that we’ve come to expect that model photos will have a very shallow focus which is why we automatically choose which is real or a model. This applies to the background also, the sharper the more realistic. Sorry that took longer than expected.

Nice models Mr. Peter and wonderful shots. Yes as small an aperture is the key to depth of field along with enough light to achieve a faster shutter speed. Even with a long(er) zoom you can still get as tight framing of your image as you want. Of course it all depends on the look you are going for.

It must have passed Smog!

I have found that by moving Way back and Zooming in you will flatten the perspective angle and get a greater depth 0f focus giving a more realistic look to your image. However you do need much more light and/or a tripod or very steady hand.