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Morning all, Given I'm new to the forums, etc. maybe this has been discussed already, but being a librarian and nerd by trade, I'm always fascinated by the 1:1 information on the models I've started building. Google Books, given that they've digitized ALL of the Popular Mechanics magazines has now become my primary resource tool. Just ran across this a few moments ago: (apologies for the ugly url) https://books.google.com/books?id=g9QDAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA202&dq=%22AMT%22%20model%20cars%20%22popular%20mechanics%22&pg=PA88#v=onepage&q=%22AMT%22%20model%20cars%20%22popular%20mechanics%22&f=false Now if I could just find a model and skills to be able to pull this off!!! By the way, if you check the article out, I thought it was interesting that AMT had a research division....but maybe that was just because of their involvement with the manufacturers back then? --Tony PS: For you Chevy fans, check this one out: http://images.google.com/hosted/life/70c055dab06086d6.html

While doing research for a project in some old Rod & Custom magazines I found some reference pictures for another Board Member's project that I copied off to mail to him. I just wasn't happy with the results, I copied them off on a pretty high dollar copier at work, still the details were washed out. I first thought that the pictures were printed in black and white, and monkeyed with the settings a little they still looked washed out. Lightbulb moment, remembered something from High School Graphic Arts eons ago and tried the color setting on the copier. Viola! The picture came out nearly as good as the magazine. The Tip is when copying pictures for research from old Hot Rods, Rod & Customs, Little Pages, etc. where the pictures are printed in the black, white and greenish blue. Copy in color and they will look very close to the magazine you copied them from. The other tip here is that I almost always copy the picture from the magazine(s) and work off of the copy, it preserves the old magazines just a bit more. I've been doing this even for artwork for a long time, just rediscovered the first tip lately.