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Wow, nice resource Dave!

Yeah, Mark. Crisp rims, nice ++

Alright! I'm in! Found this great ref pic on Wikipedia of most of the business end: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:McLaren_M23_DFV.jpg

I dig the sausage-and-mustard colored seats!

At this turn, no discussion on dioramas would be complete without mentioning Shepard Paine and Louis Pruneau. For those of you who haven't heard of these two masters you will see amazing (ofc) museum quality pieces. Both deans of the art along with Ken (Hamilton).

Rotar...Cool.

Wow u .. so beautiful and cleannn

I love Formula 1. The subject becomes increasingly unpopular the more it's mentioned... (F1, that is..) Regardless, I build. Slowly, but I build.

Shiny and pointed, that's what we like! )

Well, so I have dove in tonight. I ordered two Revell 55 Chevy kits to try to make this happen. I will post again once fenders start being cut apart.

... Looks nice and neat. To me, that counts a lot... ))) Good job!

About the pink Nova ... Yeahhhh! ... sometimes it all comes together ... like it does here. i LOVE the rainy-day mood... Tasty looking shot

Jonathan, Also, if you have a craft store near you, or an art supply store, maybe pick up some sheets of colored paper, greys, tans, whatever strikes you. These are cheap and great to have on hand for sweeps. Also a yard or so of black velvet is good to have around (velour?) .. that is, if you are into black backgrounds. The texture of the fabric absorbs light and makes shooting easier. Roger

Mark.. that's a really nice technique .. machining only the outer rims. Maximum bang for not that many ergs. I can see it improving Cragars, Minilites, Welds, all kinds of rims. Those Goodyear markings are recessed ??

Hmm, you are right Doctor!. It has that double headlight AND the body aft of the headlight swells in an outwardly direction. Good option! And then there's a Corvair ,,, although copies of the old AMT Corvair kit's go for relatively high prices.

I have been looking for something offbeat to do since I'm between projects. This catamaran came to mind. I think both fuselages will need to be fabricated because taking the front fenders lines straight back would make for too-narrow a set of cockpits. I think they might have to be vacuum formed, and the headlight and taillight "clips" styled in so that I can use a kit's trim rings. Spanning the front would be a main beam that would sport the 55's egg crate grille motif somehow. Aft of the cockpits the bodywork will swell at the chrome trim to echo the rise at the read quarter windows. I'm thinking curbside right now, it seems a lot to bite off. I think this could work with a 57 too... What you you guys think?

Thanks Doctor .. notice the mottled sky however. The laser print was decent, but if instead I took the file to a place like Fedex Office (Kinkos) and outputted the file on one of their color machines (cheap, a couple of dollars) the sky would have been much smoother. Here's another shot of it on just a grey-colored paper sweep. Also, tiny, easy-to-do details can fool the eye into thinking a model's real. On this one the valve stems, made of small wire, help do this. And if I had thought to thin down and sharpen up the hinges, that would have helped too.

Tony, great pictures!! I did a yellow coupe too, instead of white paper, a laser print ...

Really nice color sense you have, I loove the yellow with the wood. Nice. And also the colors of the tree are spot on!

Wow! Nice building )) By the way, my fingernail is painted too. Hence the fire...

Well, you are right Harry... and nobody reacted to Michael Paul Smith's stuff either... I was really impressed.

Michael Paul Smith is one of the masters of this "foreground model / background real" technique. Although the cars are all diecasts, there is much to learn from his images and anecdotes. This link is just one example of many you will find there...

Dr. C., the image is rather old (like it's maker lol), it was done in the nineties and you are right, you saw it as part it of a futuristic F1 garage diorama I did. No fotki or picasa, but my website rogersmodels.com has all the stuff. Thanks for the kind words PS: MikeMc: NIce set of pictures ;-) You are good.

Well, you asked Dr .. this is a "phantom view" i tried. I took an exposure with the body work on, then one with it off. Using both files in PS, I did this transparency and jagged cut-away effect.

Wow Monty, I haven't heard that name in a coon's age. What a deja-vu! I DO miss Auto World .. And Mark, hope you got my email .. this will be the first of your builds I'll be with you for :-_