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Toy cars at Merivale McDonald's.

My most elaborate 1:43 scale toy cars with backdrop set up yet.

 

I took a picture of the drive-thru at Merivale Road McDonald's in Nepean, then printed it out on two sheets of paper, taped together. Then I stretched out the pavement in Photoshop and printed that out on two more sheets of paper. I placed the McDonald's backdrop to the back of a thin box, used the cover of an old Sony turntable as a platform, and lit it using a energy-efficitent light bulb (that's the same colour and light "temperature" as a normal incandescent light bulb) to simulate the sun and a battery-powered fluorescent light (that was made to use with the Game Boy Advance in low-light situations) as a fill light.

 

Here's what the set looks like zoomed out a bit.

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Uploaded on August 2, 2006
Taken on August 2, 2006