An early pic of the shop

[LUKE'57]

Here's a pic of the shop early on before I enlarged the parking area, added a wooden privacy fence and the chain link fence enclosure for storage. I'll try to get some better pics posted tomorrow afternoon.

[rod_k2]

MAN,THAT'S AWESOME! It's hard to believe that those are models...
Awesome!!

[G-man422]

OK, listen up. I looked at this post and then didnt put anything because i thought to myself "why is this guy putting up pictures of his car shop???" Then i Just realised (afyter seeing the above post) that those are models!!!!

AMAZING!!!

[rsxse240]

I love the speed smear on the truck! was that done by photoshop, or was it actually moving along while you snapped the pic? this is one fabulous diorama!

[klutz_100]

100% Bombastic!

The blurring effect on the car passing on the street is a masterpiece of trompe l'oeil that totally decieves the mind and makes the whole thing even more believable!

[450HP]

Originally Posted by rsxse240

I love the speed smear on the truck! was that done by photoshop, or was it actually moving along while you snapped the pic? this is one fabulous diorama!

Same question... that's the first thing I noticed as well!

Scott

[gionc]

.... speachless, as Steve said the blur effect for the truck is terrific..

How much crew you need actually? LOL I remember a pict you posted with the big diorama on the roof.. pure fun

[Dave5.0]

Now thats friggin cool.....very well thought out and built!

[D.E]

Do I see a Charger there? The purple one. :P

[lancer07]

wow! that looks so realistic. its unbeliveable

[willimo]

That's just fantastic. It's so spot on perfect; it reminds me of one of many of the little speed shops you'd drive by on the two-line highways all around Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee.... anywhere in the south and probably anywhere else. Just awesome work!

[LUKE'57]

You guys had better quit talking about me like that. I have a hard enough time getting a hat that fits like it is without ya'll swelling up my head like that. LOL That purple car is a model of a friend of mine's '65 Impala Grand National (now Nextel Cup") that my brother did for me for Christmas or my birthday a few years back.


He usually builds the local dirt track cars for the drivers here but does an old Nascar ride for me every so often. We both got into hand lettering and serious modification as a neccessity building replicas of local race cars many many years ago. He now not only builds cars with handletting but with hand cast wheels and tires and has built a two stage vacuform to make the outlaw type and discontinued street stock bodies needed for his creations. Truth be known, he has seriously overshadowed his big brother in the modeling arena. Here's one of his Freddie Smith late model "models" in 1/25 scale along with a pretty good approximation of a southern dirt track to set it on.

[NOMADGAMER]

Pronounced "Trump Loy," it is an art technique involving extremely realistic imagery in order to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects really exist, instead of being just two-dimensional paintings. The name is derived from (French for "trick the eye", from tromper - to deceive and l'œil - the eye; IPA pronunciation [tʁɔ̃plœj]).

Thank god for those boring architecture classes where we actually had to learn this stuff...

On another note, that diorama IS AWESOME !

[theOmni]

Dude, that is amazingly amazing!
THe only thing that gives it away is the road (a bit too smoothe).

Everything else is realy nicely done!!

[NOMADGAMER]

I cheated, and found another picture!