RichM Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Hi All Finally finished! The car is excellent Matchbox 1/32 scale Type 59 Bugatti with wheels from Le Mans Miniatures. I added brake lines and plug leads from fuse wire. The building itself is balsa and card. The setting is entirely fictitious and has probably added a few a points to my modellers licence! The clutter is from the usual sources. I have to admit I'm not completely happy with the figures. This is the first time I've included a number of figures and I found them quite tricky. But I'll persevere. Edited October 11, 2020 by RichM 29 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) Sorry this should have gone in 'ready for inspection'! Perhaps one of our administrators would kindly move it for me? Edited October 11, 2020 by RichM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Great diorama. Looks to evoke the period well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badder Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 A fantastic,, full of detail job, you've done there Rich! Great to see Murray Walker in his youth. It would be great to see Formula 1 pits tops through the ages. Rearguards, Badder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 I've moved this for you Rich, but I just check the large looking pics, and noticed that they were loading slowly and were very large. I tested some of the pics, and they were 1.8mb in size, which is huge when posting up on the internet. You should be aiming to save your files to around 200kb optimally, give or take a bit. To accomplish this, you can reduce the size of your pics, as anything over the recommended 1024 x 800 maximum we advise, it's wasted bandwidth and storage space useage. Most people view these pics on phones, tablets and 1080p screens, so huge photos of 4000 x 3000 px will have to be shrunk down by the forum software (load on the server and delay for the user), as well as the extra bandwidth that is uses up (10x what's necessary). The downsides of this from a viewer's point of view is the waiting time before you can view the pics, and some people might get bored and click away. From the server's point of view, it's wasteful of bandwidth, storage size (we cache images to improve speed), and it's also wasteful of the server's resources, which means a slower experience for all of us. This isn't meant as a "telling off" BTW, more of a bit of useful advice to help you as well as help us. If you can size your pics to the recommended limits, we'll be really happy, and so will the members 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stickframe Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 Very nice dio! lots of details, and evocative of race day! Cheers Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swralph Posted November 1, 2020 Share Posted November 1, 2020 Great diorama. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichM Posted November 8, 2020 Author Share Posted November 8, 2020 Thanks everyone. Mike; sorry about the large pics. I'm not great with this stuff but I'll try and get it right next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noel Smith Posted December 12, 2020 Share Posted December 12, 2020 Those LMM wheels make all the difference to the Matchbox kit by replacing the kit items. I like the way that you have added extra details to the model also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homer Posted December 13, 2020 Share Posted December 13, 2020 What a beautiful piece of work,well done 👏 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cduckworth Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Great scene! Well thought out. Very entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busnproplinerfan Posted December 25, 2020 Share Posted December 25, 2020 I really like the last b+w picture. you captured expressions on the figures which is hard to do. A lot of detail in it, I can see the hours it took. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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