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Thanks.....I found the article. As typical, very well written. As soon as I get my workshop back I can see starting this one although I might used the Revell Model A frame instead.

I have a Paasche booth. I love it but since Paasche has no real knowledge of how you're going to install it I can see why they say don't use this for flammable paint. I think you can....never stopped me but if I do blow up, my wife might not be able to sue.

Now that this has popped up, can you give details on the orange pickup. That is so sweet.

NASCAR has starting using wipers on road races. The intent is to run in the rain as long as its not a heavy downpour with lightning.

This looks to me to be a modified diecast sized like a Hot Wheels.

I can identify Lakewood Edelbrock Zoom Scheifer Back window has Valvoline. If the bottom picture was larger, I could probably help with the others.

That's an amazing silk purse you're making. I agree no one has ever tried to make this kit this accurate.

Spoilers were not used on gassers except the gasser funny cars like Mustangs and Camaros for the most part in the later 1960's. Henry Js were not used in the gaser class by this time.

Try this: https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/original-drag-racing-handout-gordie-509719305 and https://capitoldragster.com/nwnitro.htm and https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/gordie-bonin-bubble-monza-funny-car-3831178756

The first step in dealing with a problem is admitting it.

I recognize the name. Nice job on the Edmunds car.

Looks like you're doing a great job to add detail to this kit. It is very impressive.

I'm working on a deserted '29 Ford Pick up using the Revell kit. To be accurate I need to swap the wheels to wires. Any recommendations of what kit I should go searching for to find a set of stock wires for an early Ford? Thanks!

I've got several of the Revell issue of the Garlits Swamp Rat XXX which has been recently reissued by Atlantis. Question. Is it worthwhile getting the Atlantis decals to replace and/or upgrade the Revell decals. I was disappointed with the gray of the Swamp Rats in the Revell issue. Anyone have the Atlantis kit and can speak for the quality of the decals? Thanks!

I'll be watching this. Can you share a link for the transkit?

I'm old enough as I assume many of you that you found inspiration in printed media. At one time I bought every new issue of the following car magazines: Rodder's Journal, Hot Rod Deluxe, Rod and Custom plus MCM and that other model car magazine. i'm doing a change of pace build of a hot rod. Without current magazines to be inspired for build style and colors, where do you get your inspiration?

Not to be a rivet counter but the shop is in Charles Town not Charleston. Strange as it is there's both a Charles Town and a Charleston in the state. Charles Town is almost at the Maryland-Virginia border while Charleston is the state capital nearer the Kentucky-Ohio border. I point this out to save visitors in their travels.

Those look like AMT NASCAR tires. During that era AMT was using gray plastic. The wheels also look like NASCAR but that seat doesn't. What scale is it?

Looks like the one I had but the wheels were white, more than likely steel.

As it's almost 2025, I'm curious as to what kits are scheduled to be discontinued in the upcoming year. Anyone got a list?

I really like the smoked decals. Nice approach to a difficult problem.

A great backdrop is foam core poster board. I've got two sets of two boards, one black and one white from the dollar store. Total investment $5 plus tax.

I do agree with you that phones are really improving. While most phones don't allow you to control the depth stop, I do know Apple has a portrait mode which in essence produces much the same quality. Most auto functions for different shooting conditions are actually adjusting what would typically be done on a camera by adjusting shutter speed, ISO/ASA sensitivity and aperture. One thing I've observed over the years is a huge emphasis on Mb size as a marketing ploy. As Peter says, you can do a lot with 5-7Mb. I'll go back and reemphasis what I said previously, Google shooting photos for eBay using an iphone. Most modern phones have capabilities that DSLRs of 5 years ago struggled with. The inclusion of AI will only make this better. You can create excellent photos with a modern camera phone. The mention of stochastic screening having a lower resolution requirement is accurate. Most printing that is done digitally prints clusters of toner or ink and in essence is a variation of stochastic. Stochastic was first introduced in the 1960s and has a history of being a hot topic for a few years and then dieng off due to being a great theory but lacking the technical ability to use it. After seven years or so it returns and has repeated the cycle. I think the inventor of it was Heil Graphics. Only now with direct imaging is it finally technically feasible for large production runs. And with that, I'm going to climb out of the rabbit hole.

I guess I'm going down a technical rabbit hole. An ink jet printer, which is the most common way to produce a print, can produce acceptable quality at a lower resolution than offset lithography which is the standard for quality magazines. You can get by with 75-100 pixels per inch for an ink jet printer. To print with offset lithography the standard for a medium quality printed photo is 133 dots per inch. Photos printed by offset lithography are converted into halftone dots. (please let's not dirty this conversation up with discussing stochastic or FM screening) The relationship between DPI and resolution is typically 1.5-2.0 pixels per inch per halftone dot which equates to 200-266 PPI per DPI. A higher quality magazine may go to 150 with some printers claiming 180 but to the naked eye, 150 is the highest practical resolution. That equates to 225-300 PPI to achieve that DPI. When you zoom in and crop the subject with a fixed lens camera such as a phone you are throwing away pixels. In essence, when you zoom in, you're actually viewing the image at a lower resolution. This is the concept of a digital zoom which is typical of point and shoot cameras and cameras built into a phone. The DSLR with the ability to focus the lens by changing the optics does not resample the pixels to make the object larger. It changes image size by moving the optical elements of the lens. This is the concept of optical zoom. You can produce some nice large prints with a modern phone camera if, and only if, you fill the frame with the image and don't rely on digital zoom to crop the image. That rule can also be bent somewhat on how much you crop and how large a resolution your camera has. Phone cameras have become so good that the entire category of point and shoot cameras disappeared about 5-7 years ago. Remember when big box stores carried a whole display of cameras? Those went away as phone cameras improved. I do believe you can use a modern phone camera and produce magazine quality photos at a 5 x 7 size but getting much larger than that the interchangeable lens of a DSLR produces better quality. For web use, learn to use a modern phone camera. You might be surprised what you can achieve.

From a former professor who taught a photography class. The main advantages of better digital cameras are interchangeable lens and pixel depth or resolution. The lens matter most when you're taking really close (a macro lens) or far away (telephoto). Neither are the case with a model car unless you're zooming in for really close, specific part details. Resolution is a non issue when you're publishing on the web. For print, resolution is an issue but most modern phone cameras will reproduce reasonably well for a 4 x 6 or maybe a 5 x 7 printed image. My advice, google using an iphone to take Ebay photos. There's some amazing resources available which will help you take good photos for use on a web forum.