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If they were English you could bet that the one on the right would be known as "Lofty" 😉

I'm surprised there haven't been more comments - that's a really impressive piece of art. Is it done traditionally or on a computer?

There are quite a lot of 1:32 figures to be found around the world of slot car racing. Could they be a suitable basis for modding? Here's an example. Although not the grid girls, obviously...

Very atmospheric

Those shrouds look fantastic + thanks for the masterclass!

Not my build, I hasten to add - it's @Lee Chambers

The Revel one?

Thanks @Bandsaw Steve and @t15dja (or can I call you t?). I think I gave a fine demonstration of my ability to see a stick and pick it up by the wrong end 🤪😃😆

This forum does not host any members' photos - they need to be on an external photo hosting site and you then post links here. As I understand it, the reason is that expanding the servers to cope with hosting many thousands of user images would simply take too much money - and resources.

Cool Does it include Jenks's moving map/navigator?

Great start! Think how much more she'd learn if manufacturers still produced the old-style instructions: "glue inlet manifold to cylinder head", "assemble port aileron and insert into port wing lower section" etc etc

@Ben Brown Your explanation makes good sense to me and sounds very plausible, particularly with many USA car kit manufacturers growing from making models for the real size manufacturers...

The photos are now visible but you've got a stray bit of code before the photo: "http:// " You can delete it...

Architectural drawings tend to follow a more decimal pattern, with 1:100 and 1:50 being common for ground plans and 1:25 for details. Perhaps model companies in the USA used draughtsmen who had trained in architects' offices?

@DanReed it looks as if you can see the photos while others can't. I haven't used Imgur so apologies if I'm wide of the mark but have you set the images to be viewed by anyone or just you? They'll need to be set for 'public' if you'd like others to see them. Brian

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Merit? 👍

Exquisite. And Mon Ami, Mate could only be Hawthorn! How you make him so identifiable at 1:43 is beyond my skill level...

Not quite, I'm afraid. Broadly speaking, there are two ways computers can handle images. 1 Bitmaps Photographs are a good example of a bitmap. Any photograph will have a particular size - say 300 pixels X 300 pixels. A pixel is just s posh word for a dot or a point. If you look at the picture at its standard size, every point will be just that - a point. But if you zoom into it, say by a factor of 4, then every point will now be spread over 2 points by 2 points. That's 4 points and it will look very smeary. Any image that starts life as a bitmap will start to look blurry when you zoom into it. 2 Vector images These use lines starting at point a and finishing at point b. No matter how much you zoom in, the line will still be straight. Computers can understand straight lines but also complex curved lines. As long as they are drawn as vectors, they will stay sharp as you zoom in. By more jiggery pokery, it is possible to fill the shapes you create with ranges of colours, yet the more you zoom in, the colours will stay just as sharp. Many graphics programs only deal with Bitmaps - MSPaint is a good example, as is Adobe Photoshop. More complicated programs such as Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator are based on using vectors, but can also handle bitmaps. More that even if you use Draw or Illustrator to edit a bitmap, it will still look blurry if you zoom into it/increase its size. I bet it's as clear as mud now 🤪 🥴

Hmm. I get a 404 for your images...

Ooh yes - and one of those nail clipper/nail file doofers that was my introduction to the world of side cutters and micromesh!

Blood stain from badly judged use of the Stanley blade?

Or maybe I just had a bad Dremel!

After a day of fairly intense use I'm impressed. There is no instability at any speed with the tools I've used in it so far (drills, cutting discs, grinding stones) run true. There's no discernible side play on the shaft. The slowest speed is 10,000 rpm - it's a shame there isn't a lower speed but for £10... I did have a proper Dremel. The speed control switch finally failed after 12 years and replacement parts are no longer available - hence this cheapie! To be frank, the build quality of the new one seems comparable to the Dremel.

uno scherzo italiano? The result is not poor - it is excellent (as is your English) Brian