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  1. Judging by the quality of your garage, you will make something very nice. My other set up was an "emergency exit" on a race track, so it didn`t look too funny to have a car without driver or a standing driver outside the car on what is supposed to be a stretch of the race track. It also allows you to build a marshall's post or something similar if you like. However, the more technical details you put on, the less you are free with the scale of the kits you want to photograph on the set.
  2. Btw, kudos for your garage diorama. Exactly the attention to detail that I love, where you always can discover some new little thing. That's what makes it so convincing!!
  3. They are lovely photos because I avoided showing (most) of my mistakes 😇 But thank you for your praise, I apperciate it.
  4. I had two older versions, which are now taken apart (parts visible in the online pictures) and the one used here. I think the trick is to have a long enough set so the car can be shown in all angles and then a wall or something similar to make a nice transition to a real landscape behind (which should not have too many things that make the scale or the setting identifiable, e.g. the neighbors house with the neighbor on the balcony. I think they pics of the Audi here show what I mean, but in that case there is no real landscape in the background but a calendar picture. What I like about pictures taken outside is the light and the sky. You cannot really imitade that in the hobby room.
  5. Yeah, one of mine too I had a chance to see the real thing at the Monterey Historics. When you touch it, it seems unbelievable that such a "wobbly" thing can go over 360km/h at Mulsanne Thanks. I prefer a model in a showcase rather than in the closet too
  6. P.S. The broken Benetton and Jordan are victims to clumsy building and breaking the suspension (Jordan) respectively moving (Benetton).
  7. Thanks for the praise. It does look ok, but nothing like I had originally envisioned; but then, my visions are often exceeding my capabilites. The paint job is better than it appears on the pics, especially the second. The decals might have settled a bit better since then.... Glad you liked the other pics too. For the JPS I originally wanted to do the Imperial paint scheme and already bought the decals. But then my 1/12 Lotus got bashed in one of my many moves and I stayed with the JPS. The workshop is actually a crude pit stop diorama that I had build about 20 years ago for picture taking purposes The Surtees in the pic is another unfinished business. My only resin car kit I bought about 25 years ago from some Brazilian manufacturer. I ran again into difficulties and since then it is as shown. Other cars in that catagory: a 1/20 Ferrarri F1-2000 for which I bought a super detail set and botched up the paint job probably irrepairable. I might have to buy a new Tamiya kit for that. However, by now I might have grown too old for the detail set. If I remember right, alone one brake disc hat like 6 or 7 parts plus each screw made out of thin wire. Just matching all the wires and the holes up, probably would drive me insane nowadays 🤪 (Although, on the other side, each kit seems to look better with the deteriorating eye sight ) My favorite photo is of the Benetton 192. I took it in my back yard in 2005. The hill and bushes you see in the background at the very left corner are actually on the crest where the famous Corkscrew combination takes it first left turn on the race track of Laguna Seca! Great place to live, albeit only for two years (my wife hated the noise as you could hear each individual car accelarating up the long hill leading toward that turn). Cheers
  8. This was a problem child of mine. Not because the kit is bad ... it is actually a pretty well made kit with a huge potential for detailing. I got it on sale to add to my already too high stack of racing cars. When I finally started it about 5 years ago, I ran into a lot of troubles, mostly of my own making. I had bad luck with a few race carkits over the last years, someone must have put some bad voodoo on me. So, the car went half build into the closet (together with a few others). As I always was feeling bad for not having finished it whenever I saw the box (always), I manned up and finished it as a quick "weekend build" without any details or attention to parts you anyhow hardly see. So, not my best work, but finally complete and out of the closet and out of my mind 🏁 Thanks for looking, any comments welcome. Cheers here are my other racing models: https://photos.app.goo.gl/3R7EApxULTfrgsPu6
  9. Hi, this was a spontaneous purchase as it was on sale while I got some other kits. I am waiting for Mach 2 to rerelease their Vostoks, so I can keep going with my "1st of" series. But another rocket cannot hurt It's plain out of the box. I even stuck with the instructions, which didn't go to well with the decals IMHO. Not a lot of detail, even for 1/125 and I briefly considered to detail it myself - and then opted for a quick an easy build. Still, looks ok in the showcase .... As always, thanks for looking, comments welcome. Cheers Here is the rest of my space collection https://photos.app.goo.gl/DLrnifbiBdBnwxfF7 and SciFi https://photos.app.goo.gl/75G5di2pDGK5bh1S9
  10. I just realized my last post from beginning of the week wasn't actually posted I must have not pressed ENTER or so ... Well, I had some down time, not hobby related. Then I changed the jetty, as announced. The original limiting factor was the availability of the "bigger blocks" plastic profile (as seen in the pic below). That was a leftover of my fathers HO train set which I salvaged after we had to take the set down, when he was diagnosed with cancer. It was a big set up and he sold about have his trains etc. but after he passed a couple of years ago, I still have about 50+ engines and a a few hundred waggons etc. I couldn't get a reasonable price for. So I found instead a place to put at least the engines in a showcase at my place. Since then, I managed to reuse a bunch of little things that I could take with me in my projects, e.g. that plastic profile (which must be from like the 60's if not earlier!!), as a memeory of my dad. So, I had to redo the jetty differently. I also had to partly make a new surface, which not totally came out as I had wanted it to. I also added the 20mm gun: After that came the railing which went ok and after that it kind of went downhill. The windows on the bridge were one desaster ofter the other: I couldn't bent the PE parts as required, so I cut them. The white glue (normally my favorite for clear plastic parts), didn't hold the pieces together. Taking it apart, the metal was bend out of shape. Then I used superglue which of course, as ecpected, I could not keep away from the clear plastic. In the meantime I had to paint it a few times because due to all the man handling, the paint was chipping. My only excuse is, I can tell from my own experience that plexiglas or real glas in the harsh environment of the sea does not keep very well. In that aspect, I guess, it looks very accurate. I don't understand why Italeri could not have molded each window as one piece in clear plastic instaed of 3 PE parts and the clear plastic sheet.... Judge by yourself: Final act in the drama: some soft weathering of the hull, as you can see above and here: So, I consider this more or less done. I did not do the camouflage of the hull, the weathering of the below waterline hull, the mooring lines are still missing and I left out the swivelling chairs in the bridge (my CO is a hard nose who doesn't think his watch officers need those creature comforts - and the pieces would have not really fit with the two crewmembers I placed there). When I have some decent weather conditions to take some good pictures, I will post those pictures in the completed section of the forum. Until then, thanks everybody for watching and your very helpful comments. If you have any more, please feel free! Cheers
  11. Aaah, reading the earlier posts again, I think you mentioned that. Sorry for not reading carefully enough the first time around And again: it is already looking pretty good - and better than any of my attempts at rendering water - Looking forward to the final results Cheers
  12. Pr4obably everybody said already everything. Let me just add that is absolute proof of one of modelling thesises: You don't have to add every detail, as long as you have enough details that the onlooker believes the scene. This has a fantastic amount of detail and really makes me believe. Great work. Cheers
  13. I think you caught the looks of a Burke class excellent! Especially the subtle weathering (I was surprised how dirty/rusty those cans get) and, as mentioned before, the rendering of the sea is 1st class. Cheers
  14. Looking very good. It's a bit hard to tell from the pictures, but the white foam close to the hull and in the wake looks a bit to shiny. From my experience that part has a more matte look. I don't have too many of my old pictures digitalized, but this maybe shows a little bit what I mean? (Actually, here all the water looks more matte, so maybe not the best example...) Of course, it is much easier being critical, my own renderings of water never really matched the real thing. For my next try I will come back to some of your techniques ... Cheers
  15. While still on active duty, I had access to our military library system. I loaned like 400 books, mostly on Luftwaffe and navy topics. I took pictures of stuff that interested me, but never really bothered to list all the references for the pics or even the book it came from (after all, I wasn't writing my Master thesis ). So, unless there is some identification on a page or in the text, I am unable to help you out here:
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