Stalled Project: Tamiya Honda NSX

[D16 V-TEC]

Great looking model!!

Tips for future photographs:

1) Use a smaller aperture size, therefor a higher number (16-24) to get a picture that has everything in focus.

2) Shutter speed is dependent on the amount of light in the area you are photographing. If you know how to operate your light meter, just adjust the shutter speed accordingly .

Again, great work on the car.

[Morpheus XIII]

What the hell is that thing used for the prop-rod? A chopstick?

[Jay!]

Originally posted by Morpheus XIII
What the hell is that thing used for the prop-rod? A chopstick?

It's just a toothpick. I didn't want my grubby hands in the pic. :silly2:

[Morpheus XIII]

Haha, why not? Perhaps a scout would locate you on being a hand model! You could do Tag Heuer ads.

[Jay!]

Something else I forgot to mention, primarily because the pics that showed it were crap!

The headlights work! :flash: I thought they'd be kinda cheesy-looking, and had actually considered just gluing them shut, but they really look good! I have to take the body off the chassis to line them up right, but it's a cool feature, and it's worth it.

[Morpheus XIII]

What?! Glue shut the pop-up lights? That's one of the NSX trademarks which will be sorely missed with the facelift...

[JD@af]

Nice work, man. The car did come out very nicely. I too echo the comments about the photographing difficulties.

I am bummed because I took 36 exposures of my recent "new engine" project, and only about a third of them came out even decently. Another third came out very dark with very little light contrasting :zx11pisse , and the final third (the actual pictures of swapping the old engine out and the new engine in) didn't come out at all

I may break down soon and get a digital camera. Kind of rewarding to know right away if your picture came out nicely or not.

[G-Forces]

Originally posted by JD@af
I may break down soon and get a digital camera. Kind of rewarding to know right away if your picture came out nicely or not.

'Chew'dat! I bought a decent digial camera a bit ago. It's really nice knowing when a shot turns out or not. I was at the Toronto Indy a couple years ago with a regular camera and took a couple pics of the hotties on the back of the parade cars....wouldn't you know the only damn pics that didn't turn out....

[Twist]

Wow, Jay!
That looks great. Too bad the photos didn't come out great. The paint job is top-notch, much better than my ITR's. Which I'll be posting pictures of saturday or sunday.

For picture tips on models go grab your October 2001 Scale Auto Enthusiast. Go to the "Starting Line" by Terry Thompson article. It's on page 4. It's got some great tips. For those who don't have it, here is what it says (paraphrased!):

To take the kind of photos we need, you'll need a 35 mm camera (convential, not digital), a tripod, a big peice of backround paper (white, blue or gray would work best), and film that matches whatever lighter source you need. You can look at the magazine for examples of the types of photos we run, but the most esssential thing is to set your camera's lens to f22 or f32 before taking your picture (Yes, the exposure times will be long). That way the whole model will be in focus, which takes care of the number-one reason we reject most stories.

What's important about taking pictures like this is you have to do on a tripod. Forget about if you can't do that.

[Guiddy]

Originally posted by G-Forces

I was at the Toronto Indy a couple years ago with a regular camera and took a couple pics of the hotties on the back of the parade cars....wouldn't you know the only damn pics that didn't turn out....

Ah! Have one of mine in sympathy!

[Jay!]

I was about to scold you guys for getting off-topic, but.... um... nevermind!

[Twist]

Hey Jay,
I touched up your avatar of your NSX and made it brighter. I think it looks better what do you think?

[Jay!]

Originally posted by Twist
Hey Jay,
I touched up your avatar of your NSX and made it brighter. I think it looks better what do you think?

Thanks! I actually did, too, then forgot to upload it. I'm posting it now for comparison, but I think I'm going to use yours. :flash:

Edit: I think i just made mine more red.

[89lxihb 00lude]

Hey pkw1 that prelude is that yours. If it is your who makes that chin spoiler looks great!! The side skirts look like the Honda ones am I right? If you could let me know about that front spoiler that would be great. Was just about to order the whole Honda kit but front spoiler is a little boring.

[M-type]

hey nice NSX, good job on the body work, hows the s2k comming? any pics?