Holy crow!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/sets/72157604247242338/with/2346008881/
Best model work I have ever seen, assuming he’s honest about it.
Awesome - Looks like some of my old neighborhoods back in the 50’s.
Interestingly, a non modeler sent me a link to those same extraordinary photos last week. Here is a live link
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24796741@N05/sets/72157604247242338/with/2346008881/
This guy gets mega-kudos for the photos and settings as well as the craftsmanship. While this is 1/24th scale automobile modeling I think there are lessons here for us model railroaders. At first glance his streets and buildings look super detailed. But look closer. They are hardly detailed at all. What makes them look so realistic is the clean, neat modeling, no rough edges or compromised “close enough” joints intrude. Things are clean and regular and surface textures are even. One could even conclude that too much detail and too much variety of texture leads to less realistic modeling, at least for close up photography purposes.
Dave Nelson
Note that he ‘artfully’ avoided mentioning that he did not make the autos. Deception is not just in what you think you see.
One thing I picked up on was ever thing was just to clean. I was blowing up the pictures to the original sizes, then you could see some of the pictures where of models. Grass on the lawns did not have blades, but where clumps, wires to some of the builds hung like model wire, not like 1:1 scale wire. Headlights did not look just right.
With that being said, the man is Good!
Cuda Ken
These are digitized (film) photographs–not digital photos; he has been very careful in his cropping and dodging procedures to insure that little deceptive features did not intrude into his illusion. As a man who has shot up over a thousand rolls of film over the years this man is an absolute master of printing techniques and I take my hat off to him.
Was already posted: http://cs.trains.com/trccs/forums/t/168296.aspx
I have also seen these on several car forums and he is getting very good reviews from the car buffs. Note for more info on each picture, click on the info button on the top right, here he often explains why, how, etc. And he notes the cars are not his own creation. It also appears that several of the pictures were done as ads for the diecast company that did the cars. But still very impressive!
I really liked the photos,a heck of a way to display your model diecast collection. Also interesting is the fact that I also recieved this link from a non-modeler. Looks like its one of those things thats going around, much like the Miniature Wunderlands link a couple weeks back. I must’ve recieved that link at least ten times from non-modeleers. Ain’t the interenet grand? BILL
It was just posted on Fark.com, which is why so many people have seen it recently.
I think it’s more a testament to his photography ability rather then his modeling, that being said his structures if he did in fact build them are pretty nice pieces of modeling.