D. Krakow Auto Repair in 1/87 scale

[k27rgs]

On a daily basis I look at the work of Doan, Revelia, Nolan, Addison, Sundance Central, etc for small detail ideas.
I just recieved a link to this project and Man !!! what a work of art it is.
Looking forward to spending many hours viewing the uploaded photos.
Also thanks to the members , Marty & Co for the additional background info regarding Auto shops.
The realism is just first class and will inspire many modelers in ALL scales, for many years.

  Congrats again on a incredible project.  

   regards

     Mario Rapinett ( Australia )

[Philip Smith]

Junior, modeling at its finest. Thats the shop where its there, just give me a second to remember where.

Philip

[Junior]

Thanks very much Paul, Mario & Philip. Paul I will look into some possibilities for having the front wall removable. For viewing purposes it really doesen´t matter as the roof is removable but for camera angles it´s essential.

For my previous projcet (Machine Shop) all the fantastic pictures of the Railtown / Jamestown shop posted by you Mario at the Modvid site were invaluable.

Thank you,

Anders

 

[TRAINS1941]

Anders,

The inside of that garage is just so perfect.  The detail is amazing.

Jerry

[Junior]

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Just testing to post pictures in a different way.

Anders


Seems to work fine....

[finescalerr]

It probably needs a slightly longer exposure. The kind of photo you are trying to produce is tricky. -- Russ

[pwranta193]

Seriously, it looks like a movie set scene... there should be a couple of guys getting ready to move "green" beer out of the basement or smuggled Canadian whiskey into the back of a Model A pick up.

To include an overused gringo-ism, this truly kicks ass.  

Russ or Anders, I'd love some insight into shooting the dark like this... it's one of the things I'd like to practice doing on the really big halftrack project, as the vision in my head (not the one that comes with the voices) was a dusk or dawn scene.  Years ago, I learned how to do it for outdoor shooting but that was a quarter century ago... not to hijack this thread - is there an extant thread around here on this sort of thing?

Paul R.

[Ray Dunakin]

Looks great to me. Very moody. I'm amazed at how real it looks, yet it's only HO scale.

[Junior]

 


Paul, I think Russ would be the man I´m far from a pro but here is how this picture was shot. The only lights were the LED´s in the buliding. Nikon D5000 with an 18-55 mm lens. F. stop 14 with a 30 second exposure time. Two extra close up lenses (+2 and +3). Three exposures focused at front, middle and rear and then stacked in the Helicon Focus software.
The building is actually 41 scale foot long but looks like it´s half of that in this picture. Guess a wide angle lens would correct that but then you get leaning walls etc. so it´s give and take. At it´s original format 4,1 mB the quality is better than what´s shown here. This one has been reduced to 200 kB.

Ray, thanks for your comments. I was just testing to post a picture through my new photobucket album but I will have new pictures very soon. The diorama is close to being finished.

Anders

[Chris]

The last picture is absolutly wonderful
reminds me the place of a tractor repair shop near Limon not very far where I live
looks the same with the "bordello" inside
congratulation for this model Anders
I keep your pics in my computer
Think it could be a nice screen backdrop

[eTraxx]

Chris .. EXCELLENT idea! So ..

[Chuck Doan]

I agree, great mood. Looks like that Helicon software (or something like it) is the way to go for minature depth of field.

[eTraxx]

CombineZM is a free program that evidently does the same thing/similar fashion.

Tutorial for stacking with CombineZM software

[W.P. Rayner]

You can also adjust depth of field in Photoshop with adjustment layers or Tilt/Shift actions.

Geez Ed, do you have enough icons on your desktop... 

Paul

[eTraxx]

Yah .. need to clean that up!