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This old scale has been sitting around our house for years. I think my wife got it as a wedding present some 12 years ago. There's not telling how old it really is. We always liked the rust patina and thought it would be a good subject to photograph, but have never gotten around to it before.
Tonight I had to take something of value. It has been about a week and a half since I've taken anything of note.
For this shot, I had one light on level with the face of the scale and to the right of the image. I had my handy-dandy black backdrop behind and underexposed.
Only post-processing in Photoshop was an adjustment layer for contrast, set to 45% opacity (no adjustment in the dialog box) and resizing.
Please critique honestly,
skot
Prototype of a full metall kids car with strong gasoline engine, 2 wheel or 4 wheel drive and a lot of extras
Sometimes, when looking at a photograph it is difficult to judge the scale of elements within; the angle from which a photograph is taken alters dramatically the perceived scale which we view the image in our mind. I guess you may be struggling a little with this one taken with the camera nearly at ground level. Cast your eye to the V in the major rocks on the right of the picture and you will see a tree, perhaps that will now alter your perception of the scale? The two largest peaks were probably only five metres or so higher than the level of the camera, although considerably higher than the landscape surrounding this location.
Where? Oh yes, taken on a very warm day a few years ago at Hanging Rock in Australia.
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Issued by Conquest Models. It is 1:43 scale and crafted in white metal.
The model is finished in Arroyo Turquoise Poly.
This model was added to my collection in May 2020.
Did you know that butterfly wings are covered with microscopic scales? I used fish leather with a visible scale pattern to cover the spine. Conceptual. No?
(You can find all colors of fish leather at fineleathers.etsy.com).
Here's a nice overhead view taken with the good camera. I'll describe the air tankers here, air racers and target/controllers in the later captions:
Skywave P-2 Neptune in Hawkins and Powers air tanker colors. From the "Scramble!" set. Props and landing gear as supplied in the kit. I sanded off the under-belly . radome and the Martin gun turret on the upper aft fuselage, which all references clearly show is right. I also shortened the MAD boom on the tail, which may have been unneccessary. The kit includes the two turbojet auxillary engines that these later P2s carried outboard of the big air-cooled piston engines. Some P2 air tankers still carry the jets, but the one I was modeling did not, so I left them off.
Hasegawa TM Avenger in air tanker colors, operator, state and year unknown. I found a photo of these markings on the web and built a model to match. Something easier to do in 1/700 than larger scales... Hasegawa's kit is one of those charming all in one items, but I added main and tail wheels from round rod stock and and a propeller from the Trumpeter F4U kit.
Skywave "The West Wings 2" set S2 Tracker in California Deptartment of Forestry (or their vendor's) colors, from 10-20 years ago. I actually saw one of these S2s working the Lexington Resivior fire decades ago, and the Motorbook on the subject of air tankers has a cover illustration of one of these tennis ball yellow beauties. The props and landing gear came with the kit, but the gear wheels are a bit small, so I replaced the main gear wheels with 0.035" or 0.040" styrene rod stock. Biggest problem with this kit is that the horizontal stabalizers are supplied 'flat'. I bent them to get the right dihedral, but that weakened them and both sides broke off at one point or another during construction. Lesson learned: Pick these up with tweezers.
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Ever the helpful photography assistant-- or at least creature strongly attracted by warm lights-- JellyBean decided to insert herself into this image for scale. It's a but unfair, though, she's a Maine Coon.
Read more about the mount, not the cat, here.
Book of Kings, Shirin Nesh (right panel of triptych)
Bernard Berenson had some strong opinions about studying art from photographs. Photography gives us a false sense of scale and in color photography a idea of the original skewered by the photographer or printer. When looking at photos we fill in the blanks.