The Little World

I’m so pleased that the photographs I took in my studio of Bill Duncanson’s Bentley motor car model have made it to the cover of the premier Australian modelling magazine; Modelart Australia, Issue 110. I feel it to be a real, if unacknowledged, achievement for my studio.

Of course the graphic artist on the magazine’s staff – Terry O’Neill – did a great deal more for the original image – the ground, grass, and tree are all his work, as well as the attractive magazine cover layout. The original picture was taken in landscape orientation and as most magazines work in a vertical format, he’s edited it rather well to go to this shape. I think I recognise some of the rendering filters that the Photoshop program provides in that tree and grass.

Well, Bill’s models are always worth seeing, and worth a close look. They start from various sources  – gifts, purchases, orphans left on the doorstep in a basket – but they always end up looking so real that you have to pinch yourself. Or pinch Bill.

By the way, feel free to use the images that you see in the body of this weblog post for whatever purpose you see fit. I make a gift of them to the world. But please don’t reproduce the heading image of the cover as this is in the copyright of Modelart Australia and you’ll need their permission for that. If you get it, give Terry a credit for the tree. It’s a good tree.