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2. I
don't know. Where did Airfix get this from? Maybe it was a short-lived
experimental camo scheme. Either way it looks rubbish. The later Euro 1
schemes looked far better. This photo is obviously taken indoors.
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3.
Another indoor shot. Obviously the blue sky here is a bed sheet. The grass
is a roll of model railway grass. The concrete is a painted piece of wood.
The bushes are model railway lichen. The only thing professional about the
shot are the strong photo-lights. |
4. The
photo light used were something my father gave to me. They burned extremely
hot and I had to be careful I didn't burn the carpet. It got singed
occasionally. You could tell by the smell.
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5.
But nothing beats the lighting quality of the real outdoors. Another
outside shot showing how much easier it was to work in natural daylight. For
one thing, working outside gave you far more space to work in. In this case
a picnic bench on the lawn. |
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6. Back
indoors again. The indoor photo's were not the very first experiments as
they had cotton-wool clouds. |
7. The
clouds quickly got ditched as they were too much in focus and looked exactly
like cotton-wool. |
8. I
used a Pentax Me Super SLR for all these photo's. I recall it was a gift for
my sixteenth birthday. I wanted it precisely for this purpose. |
9.
This dates all the photo's here
to around 1985. |
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10. The
indoor shots were taken in my bedroom. |
11. The
outdoor shots are taken on a VERY large piece of hardboard my Dad found. I
carefully painted and marked it up then added the grass. It looks great. |
Note: the exterior hardboard base it still at my Father's house. I will
relieve him of it one day. But where to put it?! It's enormous. I looked at
it in 2007 and found the paint peeling off. |
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